From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 6689
Date: 2001-03-22
>Yup, it's <hud.u>, sorry. Although, of course, <hud.u> < *<fud.u>.
>Miguel:
>>The Egyptian for "four" was <jfdw>
>>(*/?Vft.aw/ < *<?-p.-t.->). Schenkel compares this with forms like
>>Somali <afar> "4", and Beja <fad.ig> "4". I might add Chadic (Hausa)
>><f(w)ud.u> "4".
>
>I like the Hausa connection and discovered it on my own previously but I
>thought Hausa had something like /h.ud.u/... I'm gonna look that up.