Re: [tied] Re: IE right & 10

From: Harald Hammarström
Message: 34135
Date: 2004-09-13

> Was there really a base 6 counting system in Uralic? I mean,
> do 12, 18, etc. function in any way like 20, 30 in the decimal
> system?

No (the idea stems from a bad-reasoned article in 1960). There are no
traces in Uralic of 6 as a base i.e no words 6+1 etc or monomorphemic
words for 12, 18 etc or 6 contained in 12, 18 etc.
/H