On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:24:28 +0000, tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
>wrote:
>>
>> >That's right. Before "the other IE" was influenced by Semitic.
>>
>> Incorrect. Hittite /s^ipta-/.
>
>Without the mimation. Aparently a loan from some other Semitic
>language.
Actually, the Hittites never spelled out the word 7 (they always used the
logogram <7> [*]), so we don't know how it was pronounced in Hittite.
s^iptamiya- is the name of a beverage (Friedrich: Flüssigkeitsbezeichnung),
perhaps consisting of seven ingredients. Melchert derives it from
*septm.-iyo-, where /am/ is the normal development of */m./ in Hittite in
medial position. In final position we would expect -un, which would mean
that "7" in Hittite was *s^iptún (unstressed e > i).
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