--- In nostratic@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> The PA reconstruction is *telu, and the Tagalog form derives from

reduplicated *ta-telu (originally used in counting human beings).
Same with *duSa, *da-duSa (> dalawa) 'two'.

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> Piotr
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*t-t-l? Half reduplication? Interesting. That would be one way to get
to *t-t- from *t-l-.

Torsten