Re: Odp: [tied] Arya-

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:24:51 -0500 (EST), longgren@... wrote:

> Indo-European borrowed numerals from Semitic? How do you explain
>Japanes "siti" for 7?

That's not a native Japanese number ("7" is <nana>). It's from
Chinese (Mod. Mand. qi1, OChin. *shit).

>How do you explain the Georgian words for 6 and 7?

"6" is probably borrowed from IE (like "4"). "5", "7", "8, "9" and
possibly "10" are boworrings from Semitic.

>Here are the Georgian numbers:
>1 erti
>2 ori
>3 sami
>4 otxi
>5 xuti
>6 ekvsi
>7 shvidi
>8 rva
>9 cxra
>10 ati
>
>Sumerian numbers look different, but not Egyptian.
>1 ua
>2 sen
>3 xemet
>4 ftu
>5 tuau
>6 sas
>7 sefex
>8 xemennu
>9 pest
>10 met

More accurately:

1. w`w (*/wú33uw/)
2. snwj (*/sinúwwaj/)
3. xmtw (*/xámtaw/)
4. jfdw (*/?íft.aw/)
5. djw (*/t.í:?aw/)
6. sjsw (*/sá?saw/)
7. sfxw (*/sáfxaw/)
8. xmnw (*/xamá:naw/)
9. psDw (*/pisí:c^.aw/)
10. mDw (*/mú:c^.aw/)


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