Re: [tied] IE numbers

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:> That leaves just two
and three unaccounted for, right?

>
> dua- Malay, Dyak, Pulo-Nias,
> Buhui, Fate, Nguna
> duo- Batta, Lamih
> duwa- Sedi, Sunda
> a-dua- Kapampangan
> dalawa - Tagalog
> dava- Mindanao
> tua- Pwele, Siviri
> rua, lua- common Melanesian
> and Polynesia
>
>
> toru, tolu, tilu, tiru, taru, tero,
> tru, tlu, tel, tal, tl- common Austronesian
> from Madagascar to
> Polynesia
> > Not too bright on the math side, those PIE speakers?

In Santali, fore-finger is: ukduk kat.up; a finger breadth is: kat.up
tasu

Words for two in Dravidian languages [note the -d.u suffix]:
Tamil: iran.d.u
Kannada: erad.u
Telugu: ren.d.u