--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> There can be little doubt that Hoffmann is right here. The use of
archaic <paktHa-> with the meaning "fifth" is documented in the RV
itself (x.61.1) in the phrase <paktHe ahan> 'on the fifth day'. The
personal name Paktha- mirrors Lat. Quintus, and is actually its
cognate. The Indo-Iranian ordinal was *pak-tHa-, with the vocalism of
PIE *pnkW-to-;
Why does an aspirate -tH- appears in *pak-tHa-? Is that some specific
development of PIE *-t- or a completely different formant (from *t-H-
or so)?
Sergei