From: loreto bagio
Message: 34428
Date: 2004-10-04
>Welcome to the game. How about 'novo'?
> --- Richard Wordingham
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "loreto bagio"
> > <bagoven20@...>
> > wrote:
> > > Actually with regards to the father, the son and
> > the holy ghost I
> > > can see them as the numbers eight, nine and ten in
> > IE-Semitic. See
> > > Spanish 'ocho', 'nueve', 'diez' from PIE *okto:
> > *newn *dekm .
> > > Perhaps the ultimate idea is The old, the new, and
> > the eternal.
>
>
> > Loreto, this strikes me as a pure word-game, and as
> > such has no
> > place on Cybalist.
> >
> > Richard (moderator).
> >
>
> I doubt that nine and new are related in PIE,
> anyway. In even the oldest known Greek, for example,
> the words are ennewa and newos (e- in ennewa probably
> indicating it began in a "laryngeal").
>