Re: House and City

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:44:14 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
>
> >http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/numbers.html
>
>
> I quote:
>
> > ekah, eka "one" Sanskrit
>
> > ekahi, atahi- Hawai'i, Nanumea
>
> The Hawaiian word is from *<?e tasi>, which has little to do with
> Pre-Aryan *aikwa-
>
> > catvar "four", Sanskrit.
>
> > kuver- Lenakel
> > keta- Kwamera
> > kuber- Lenakel
> > kuwas- Ikyau
> > kewet- E. Tanna, N. Tanna, Lenau
> > ku-et- Iarkei, Loniel
> > kefa- Isiai, Yatuk
> > kuik- Wogeo
> > kiki- Bam
> > vari- Araki
> > fari- Filakara
> > beri- Lamenu, Mapremo, Nuvi, Bonkovia, Burupika
> > bir- Fali
> > bier- Baiap, Sesivi
> > pat?- common Oceanic
>
> All the above languages are Oceanic, so in fact the only relevant
> entry is "common Oceanic" *pat?-, which gives Lenakel -Ber, Ikyau
> -was, Tanna -wet, Iarkei/Loniel -et, Kwamera/Isiai/Yatuk -fa, and

the

> last five forms (vari .. bier), without a k-prefix. The Wogeo and

Bam

> words are unrelated, and are apparently formed on a (sort of) base 2
> system ("4" = 2 + 2) as found in a lot of Papuan lgs. (see:
> http://www.zompist.com/newg.htm#papua).
>
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Thank you very much for a professional un-emotional critique of my
(in this case Manansala's) suggestions.

Torsten