Arba, Arab, Four (Re: Etruscan numerals)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "loreto bagio" <bagoven20@...>
> wrote:
> > lost the battle against Zeus and his sibling-gods. Some say tar-
> > there is related to the Sanskrit -tala. Incidentally so many

Indic

> > names with the suffix -tala are depicted as anyone of the layers

of

> > heaven or of the underworld.
> > Examples are Atala, Patala, Mahatala etc.
> >
> > Loreto
>
> All these are totally worthless folk-etymologies.

So what are the worthy folk etymologies? Let's just say 'partially'
not totally to give you a little edge.

> Arabic /arba'/ has a final 'ayin that is sufficient to deny any
> connection with /rabb/. The verb /arifa/ has another labial
> consonant, /f/ (from proto-Semitic /p/) and cannot be matched
> with /arba'/ and with /rabb/.
> Simply mediaeval absurdities! I understand it without necessity to
> talk with Arabs. You seem to be lost in reverie. We have got
> scientific method, don't forget it.
>

Now we have proclaimed scientists here?
Well maybe you are right. But those are the folk etymologies of the
Arabs and if I am to be scientific I'll start with them. NOt with
the folk etymologies or should I say 'scientific methods' of
Europeanists.
And why is it not necessary to talk to the Arabs?

Loreto