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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:39:30 -0000, "tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >But is it certain that the loan came from Semitic or might it be

from

> >some other AfroAsiatic language (with Semitic later k > t)? Note in
> >
> >http://www.zompist.com/mide.htm#afro
> >
> >for "six" and "seven"
> >Omotic, North, Dizoid
> >Dizi yàkú tù:sú
> >Shako yaku tubsu
> >Nao yakko tessen
>
> Of all the Afro-Asiatic subgroups, Omotic is doubtless the least
> likely to have been in contact with PIE. Besides, Semitic
> *s^ids^atu(m), *sab`atu(m) look like more likely sources for PIE
> *sWek^sW and *septm than yaku and tubsu.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Of course. But I thought perhaps the /k/ of (s-less) "six" words of
Omotic might testify to an earlier state of affairs in AfroAsiatic?

Torsten