Torsten:
>You have just proved that the "seven" is loan from Semitic to IE
>which I never doubted. You haven't disproved the it is a loan from
>some other language into Semitic, which is what I proposed
Finally! Now why couldn't you just spit that out earlier? Alright.
We know that it couldn't be from Semitic itself. So there needs to
be an intermediary, which is why I suggested "Semitish". You suggest
that it is not Semitish even though the only words we see loaned
into IE appear to be very much Semitic in origin. The onus would
be on you to prove that the language is not Semitish, but something
else. This requires showing elements of that language that cannot
be IE or Semitic... but then that could just be the lingering vestiges
of Semitish for all we know :)
= gLeN
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