Re: Etruscan numerals

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "petusek" <petusek@...> wrote:

> Marco:
> >Hello, Glen
> >
> >I perfectly agree about your discussion of Etruscan dice.
> >Naturally I don't believe in Indo-Tyrrhenian, and I think a NEC
> >etymology for /huth/ is far simpler.
> >In Spanish /quatro/ has one 't', but in Italian the numeral
> >is /quattro/.
> >
> >Marco
> >
>
> Please, if so, be more specific. As for Caucasus, there are several
> possibilities:
>
> 1. Kartvelian *xu(s1)t- "5", which is often considered to be a

loan from

>
> 2. NC, e.g. Rutul xud, Khinalug pxu, Bats pXi, Kabardin txw?

etc. "5",

> reconstructed as EC *xxw? and WC *(t)xw?- (by Klimov) or NC EC

*f_hä/*fhä

> besides WC *s-xw? (in NCED 426)
>
> However, you would have to answer following questions:
>
> 1. Which source?

Proto-Austronesian *xepate
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/IV.html

> 2. When & where?

The shadow knows.


Torsten