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

>
> Still, at least 'ten' cannot have a Semitic sonant m, for the full

stem is

> in fact *dek^-emt-, and it is only in pausa that the final /t/ is
> suppressed. It reemerges in the ordinal (Gk. dekat-o-s), in the

decadic

> numerals (Gk. tria:kont-a), and in *k^mt-o-m 'a hundred'.
>

The alternative would be that *dek^-emt- is back-formed from the
ordinal, which would not be unprecedented?

Torsten