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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> Richard:
> > My idea is that the concept was tabooed, as I understand has

happened

> > with 'hare' (details not to hand).
>
> If it were tabooed, why would they all adopt the same Semitic

root? I

> don't think it was tabooed. I just think that it was holy. I don't
> think that something that's holy need necessarily be a taboo.

Pre-Neolithic Semitic-based Mediterranean lingua franca? What's
your explanation? A Semitic priesthood?

Richard.