Re: [tied] IE numbers

While not questioning (or supporting) the validity of you comparison,
let me only correct the PAN reconstruction, which is *Sepat in more
recent literature. The fricative *S is currently thought to stand for
dentialveolar [s] (while the sound traditionally marked as *s is now
described as a palatal or palatoalveolar fricative).

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] IE numbers


As you know, I think the initial consonant in this word was
originally *pw, as evidenced by the f- in Germanic, and the whole may
derive from **put(u)- through *pwat(w)- > *kwet(w)-. This in turn
can be related to Afro-Asiatic *(?a)p.ut.u- "4" (Chadic <fud.u>,
Egyptian <?ift.aw>, Somali <afar>, Beja <fad.ig> and Semitic <?
arba3u> < *<?a-p.t.a-3u>), possibly to Etruscan <huth> "4" and more
remotely to e.g. Basque <laur> if from *l-aputV or even (to make
Torsten happy) Proto-Austronesian *<xepate>.