Re: [tied] IE numbers

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 10098
Date: 2001-10-10

That's what I mean, with heteroclisy lost in the surviving fragments of the paradigm (presumably because the neuter was reduced to indeclinability).
 
Piotr
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] IE numbers

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:45:43 -0000, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>All that
>can be said about the form of the numeral "four" is that it looks as
>if it were a derivative in *-wr, i.e. *kWet-wr, collective *kW(e)t-
>wo:r, animate *kW(e)t-wor-es. All would be very nice if *kWet- were
>an identifiable verb root, but apparently it ain't.

Do you mean the ending of the verbal substantive (Hitt. -war, -wan-)?