Re: [tied] Re: IE right & 10

Peter:

> This is interesting. The modern Finnish word for 10 is 'kymmenen'.
> It's etymology is given as unknown in the sources I have. It is
> presumed to be fairly recent in Finnish since the original FU
> speakers had a base 6 number system, [...]

Really? Then where does Hungarian /húsz/ "20" come from? If I understand
correctly, Uralic *k becomes Hungarian /h/ as in /hát/ "6" < *kutte when
followed by a back vowel. So I have this fetish for the idea that
*kumX > /húsz/ (where X = unknown for arguement's sake). Afterall, *tumta

> /tud/ by similar denasalization of *m. Nobody so far has said that this

can't be so. And as I've said, it's funny that it shows up in CK too.

> Some have speculated that 'kymmen' is related to 'kämmen' hand, but
> the linguistic evidence is weak.

Funny how some do the same with *penkWe. Must be the same people running
out of innovative ideas ;)


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