Re: [tied] Re: Patterns in Khoisan Numerals (was: Why borrow 'seven

At 8:44:30 AM on Friday, September 17, 2004, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

> Look at the //Au//en numbers. (//Au//en is labelled as
> tAu.//eî with a bold 't' for a palatal click by Mark
> Rosenfeld. It has many, similar names. Its ethnolgue code
> is AUE.) It is very striking that the Nama words for '6'
> and '8' correspond to the //Au//en words for '3' and '4',
> namely !nanni and ||kai. I don't know what's going on
> here, but there is a parallel with a geographically
> Caucasian form resembling IE *okto: - Glen probably
> remembers the details.

Would you be thinking of AMR's suggestion that PKart *os'tx-
(perhaps *os'txw- or *os'txo) '4' was borrowed from PIE '8'?

Brian