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.
>

Danish military use: 'nejne' '9' (borrowed from guess where) for 'ni'
to avoid confusion with 'ti' '10'.

Torsten