Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

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

> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:14:11 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> >> Etruscan
> >> /sempH/ is attested but lacks /t/, suggesting a _feminine_ form
> >> *sab`u-, clearly unlike the IE or Kartvelian reflex but much

like

> >> what is found in Basque /zazpi/.
> >The Basque form is curiosly close those of the Coptic dialect, I
> >read. I'll go check.
>
> It's Coptic <sas^(&)f>, from Middle Egyptian sfxw (/safxaw/). The
> development is safxaw > safs^ and then metathesis to sas^f.
>

Thanx. I had my information from
Václav Blaz^ek: Indo-European "Seven"
in
Indo-European, Nostratic and Beyond:
Festschrift fot Vitalij V. Shevoroshkin

Torsten