Re: [tied] -m (-n)?

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 12:32:05 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>Seems everyone agrees that PIE *septm "7" must have passed through a
>Semitic languague

I'm quite sure no-one else would put it quite that way.

>and that the final -m comes from a mimated/nunated
>form of the original word (which therefore still may be 'si pitu').
>But what then of the -n of *newn and -m of *dek^m? Are they from the
>same source as the -m in *septm (in which case they would be non-
>Semitic numerals nunated/mimated in a Semitic (Para-Semitic?)
>language)?

Semitic 9 = *tis`atu, *tis`u
Semitic 10 = *`as'aratu, *`as'ru

In other words, no.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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