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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> [...]
> So the most likely source (also for geographical and historical

reasons)

> would be some East Semitic (Akkadian/Assyro-Babylonian-like)

language.

> North-West Semitic, at least from 1500 BC onwards, and Arabic, are
> excluded. South Semitic might perhaps just be possible as far as

mimation

> goes, but it's of course highly unlikely that the PIE'ans got

their word

I think this is completely beside the point if 'seven' is a loanword
from a prestage of Proto-Semitic, or from some close relative of
such a prestage. Not all languages of the past are known.

Jens