Re: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:30:50 -0000, "tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>German has no equivalent to 'iets'. And there is no 'Iks' in Dutch.
>
>And if one should follow your metaphor to the full, you should let
>both seven's be borrowed from a hypothetical *sekt- or *sext- (cf.
>Standard High German "nichts"; note in German -xs- > -ks-, as in,
>yes 'sechs' [zeks]).

It wasn't a metaphor, merely an illustration that in modern Dutch,
/ks/ can be substituted for /ts/.

>Note the -t- in "p'at'", BTW, from the ordinal;
>is there a similar extra-IE adjective-forming -t- somewhere?

The *-tos in the ordianls is not properly an adjective-forming suffix
(*-os is). It probably became an ordinal forming suffix by accident
(*dek^mt ~ *d(e)k^mt-os --> *dek^m. ~ *dek^m-tos)
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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