Re: [tied] Latin 'twenty'

Anthony Appleyard wrote:

> Someone wrote:-
>> Greek eíkosi/Fíkati (*ewi:km.ti) points to *h1wi-h1k^m.tíh1
>> (presumably from *dwi-dk^m.tíh1 with twice *d > *h1). ...
>
> This [wi-] could be related to the very common Sanskrit prefix [vi-]
> = "apart". It may come from PIE [h1wi-]. It occurs in the Sanskrit
> word "vimana". This is "apart - having-been-measured" and likeliest
> at first meant "land measured out and made holy". Then it
> meant "temple" and then "a god's palace". Then it was used for
> Ravana's flying palace called [puSpaka] in the Rama_yana story. From
> that it came to mean "mythical flying device" in many later Indian
> stories. And now in Gujarati and Hindi it means "aeroplane". Near
> Bangalore airport in India is a new suburb called Vimanapura. And
> that is THAT word de-mysticised.

Are you aware if there is in Sanksrit even a form of "vimana" which
looks out like "vimana_ta", or any other look of "vimana" enlarged with
"t"?

Alex