Re: [tied] Re: House and City

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 6710
Date: 2001-03-23

Actually, *táto` is Guthrie's Proto-Bantu reconstruction for "three". If anyone's interested, the reconstructed Proto-Bantu numbers from 1 to 5 are as follows (capital E and O are open vowels, acute = high tone, grave after vowel = low tone):
 
*mÓ
*ba`dé
*táto`
*nE`E` ~ *na`
*táánO`
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: House and City

You're right.  *tat- is what I had intended to type.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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