--- In cybalist@..., "kalyan97" <kalyan97@...> wrote:
> I shall be grateful for info. on PIE numeral 'nine'. Was there
> a l- in any of the European language words?>
> The numeral 'nine' in Munda is 'lo'. The l- > n- transforms
between > Munda and Bengali are attested (e.g. loe ? noe). The
Khotanese form > for nine is: nyoh.
> > It is hypothesized that the form for 'nine' in Para-Munda is loh-
> (rebus homonym: loha, metal, ore). The phonetic changes may be
stated > as follows: loh-, noh-, noe, no, nava establishing the
substrate link > between early Indo-Aryan and Munda and between Munda
and Dravidian > languages. [cf. on-patu for nine in Tamil which may
be a metath. > reflex of 'no' nine].> > The count of nine is emphatic
in a few pictorial motifs.
See >
http://www.hindunet.org/munda/mundanine.htm
Some lexical entries of Pashto suggest alternates between l- and n-
"Pashto-English Dictionary" co-authored by M.H. Rahimi and M.S. Rohi,
Kabul, 1979 (and later reprints).
_nmar_ and _lmar_ "sun"
_lambar_ and _nambar_ "number"
_luund_ "wet, moist" which pairs with _nuund_ "damp" in Bellew's
Pashto dictionary,
_lma'say_ and _nma'say_ (where _a'_ is a schwa) "grandson"
_lamCay_ "felt (rug)"; _namla_ "felt pad" (related to hindustani
_namda_
_nmuunJ_ "see _lmwwnJ_" for which the entry is missing; it means
"worship" and is related to Persian "namaaz" (_J_ is used for the
_dz_ phoneme).
_lg^a'Sta'l_ (where _g^_ is "ghain", the Iranian phoneme sometimes
written _gh_ and S is a retroflex S) "to roll" and _ng^aSta'l_
Regards,
Kalyanaraman