Re: Why borrow 'seven'? (was: IE right & 10)

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"

> But if it were a noa word it would have had to replace several
> presumably _different_ words in IE, Etruscan and Uralic. Unless it
> was the concept of sevenness itself that was taboo'ed
> (independently?) in these three groups, but what would then be the
> idea behind replacing it with a common loan?

My idea is that the concept was tabooed, as I understand has happened
with 'hare' (details not to hand). IE and Etruscan may show a common
loan; the multiple Uralic loans appear to be from IE languages.
What, though, rules out Etruscan borrowing from IE?

Richard.