[tied] Re: Numerals query again

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 10-11-03 20:59, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > Any idea about loans, when we deal with numbers, for me is very
> > strange.
>
> Why? Individual numerals, systems of counting, and ways of forming
> complex numeral expressions are all borrowable (wholesale or

partially).

> The inherited atomic numerals are more stable than the rest, but

can be

> borrowed nevertheless. There can be little doubt that PIE

*septm. '7' is

> a cultural loan of Semitic origin. Crimean Gothic sada '100', Finno-

> Ugric *sata and possibly Slavic *sUto come from Iranian, and

Albanian

> quind from Latin.
>
> Piotr

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Ok. I will agree with you if you are able to explain to me or to
others: Why Latin <centrum> derives in Albanian <qendër> (Geg
<qândër>, (t.) qëndër) 'center' and <centum> just not <quind>, but
<qind>. Phonetically speakig, much convincing is Gall. or Bret.
<cant> then Latin <centum>, taking into account that consonontal
group <-en> derives regulary: (g.) -ân and (t.) -ën. See also Hemps
explanation about numb one, (g.) njâ, (t.) një.

Konushevci