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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> On Hittite /s^ipta-/:
> >Without the mimation. Aparently a loan from some other Semitic
> >language.
>
> That would violate logical parsimony.

Logical parsimony demands that all IE forms of "seven" are borrowed
from the same Semitic language, when the idea of a feminine gender
wasn't?

>There is already a root *septm
> reconstructed on the basis of countless other IE languages. The
> Hittite form is unproblematically relatable to the very same root.

>
>
> >I didn't know Etruscan had gender?
>
> It's suspected that Etruscan might have an animate/inanimate

contrast

> like in Swedish or... IndoEuropean. For example, certain words

like /un/

> "libation" or *pulum "star", which happen to be inanimate objects,
> materials or collectives, are given plurals in /-cHva/ while other

more

> "animate" nouns are given /-r/ like as with /clen/ "son". We never

ever

> see */clencHva/ nor do we see */unar/. This suggests that nouns

might

> be classified grammatically into two word classes or genders.

Coincidently,

> there seems to be a preference in given female names or nouns
> describing women the l-genitive rather than the s-genitive. It would
> seem to me that not only are the two genders distinguished by
> different case endings in the genitive but that the concept of

feminity

> is treated grammatically more as a collective inanimate, hence the

use

> of this "inanimate genitive" in /-al/.
>
>

Interesting! Thanks.

Torsten