Re: [tied] Re: septm [was: Caland [was -m (-n)?]]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:09:57 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>> For what it's worth, in Mark Rosenfelder's
>>
>> http://www.zompist.com/mide.htm#afro
>>
>> check out "seven" and "eight" for two Northern Omotic languages of
>> the Gonga group:
>>
>> Mocha shabá.tto shimítto
>> Anfilo shabattó shimittó
>>
>> Loans from some Ethiopic language?
>
>Their words for 'ten' also look Semitic.

6-10 are all borrowed from Amharic (except Shinasha '10'). In Anfillo, 5
(amitto) is too.

>The South Omotic and Dizoid
>words for 'seven' also look Semitic. However, I don't know that the
>latter forms aren't cognate.

That look more like cognates (tobba, tub`a, tabzá, tossum; tù:sú, tubsu,
tessen <) *tubzu (?) ~ *sab`u.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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