From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 71583
Date: 2013-11-13
>> ---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <gprosti@...> wrote:*Bhr.: I concede a motivation "everything possible" isn't particularly
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "regular system of diatopic variation", but
>> if you have a
>> set of words with a sufficient amount of shared phonetic material, plus
>> matching
>> semantics, this overrides the criterion of regular phonetic correspondence
>> when drawing
>> a connection between two or more forms.
>
> Which itself can be overriden if the similarities can be shown to have
> divergent origins, of course. In this case that'd require a whole bunch of
> corroborating evidence for the model of forming numerals as "largest numeral
> not yet named", though. The best precedent I can think for anything along
> these lines is from the set-theoretical construction of ordinal numbers, a
> bit advanced for a supposed pre-HG origin :)
> (...)
>
> _j.