Piotr:
>What's interesting about early Germanic numerals is the use of *xunda-
>as 'approximate hundred' (70-120), as in Old English:
And I presume that *xunda- is from *kmtom, which is supposed to mean
"hundred", but literally means "of tens". Is it possible that *xunda- is
here
being used in the literal sense to form those words like /hund-seofon-tig/
so that they signify "seventy of tens".
= gLeN
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