Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:12:45 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>As I already posted to Piotr, I think *okto:u is the source of a _later_
>analogical
>spread of accent to the second syllable in *septm. We can conceive of "7"
>and "8" as forming pairs when counting and "9" and "10" do too. Miguel is
>too caught up on numerals ending in *-m to see this natural counting
>pairing,
>and the quite apparent cause of accent shift.

I did consider analogy from *ok^tó:(w), but I just didn't feel that was
compelling enough. In any case, we agree that stressed syllabic resonants
must be secondary.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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