Re: [tied] numbers {was: Venus}

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:

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> --- loreto bagio <bagoven20@...> wrote:
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> Each daughter language has different rules changing
> it from the mother over time. Latin and most other
> languages deleted syllabic "laryngeals" at the
> beginning of a word. Greek did not, creating
> contrasts such as dens and odous (tooth), nomen and
> onyma (name), ster and aste:r (star), etc.

Agreed. Different rules for different stages of associations.
That is why my previous wonder.

> The current pronunciation of Japanese shouldn't be
> used to make comparisons with other language families.
> Only the oldest known (or reconstructed) forms can
> help show relationships due to common ancestry. As
> far as I know, hachi was pronounced fati fairly
> recently, much too late to have a common origin with
> okto:

You're wrong in hachi>fati in as far as You know.
And please doubt the reconstructed forms. They are reconstructions.

Loreto