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

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:05:30 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Miguel:
>
>>To return to the word for "7", the Semitic reflexes would seem to suggest
>>accentuation on the second syllable *sab`átu, in view of the reduction of
>>the first -a- to /i/ in Hebrew s^ib`a: (besides s^ab`a:), Aramaic s^ib`a:,
>>and to /ä/ in Amharic säbatt.
>
>Well, I don't know about *sab`átu. I'm counting on *sáb`atu.

It doesn't matter for IE. *séptm. comes from *sébVtVm regardless of the
original Semitic accent. If the Semitic acentuation was *sab`átum (as the
Semitic data suggest), this means that the word was borrowed before/during
the working of the initial accent rule.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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