Re: Latin barba in disaccord with Grimm's Law?

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

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> > >> I agree that *-kWe in "five" is probably the
> > >> familiar *-kWe
> > >> "and" (1, 2, 3, 4 _and_ 5). I fail to see what
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> > >> might be
> > >> doing after "3".
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> > > One, two and three, four and five. What's wrong
> > >with that?
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> > We have five fingers.
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> I have ten, but some are repeats. I understand that
> it may not "sound right" in some languages besides
> English, but saying "one, two and three, four and
> five" doesn't seem odd; it's not only on the final
> word of the chant that "and" can appear.
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If *kWe was an enclitic, it seems odd to me that it would be
analyzed as part of a following word rather than as part of a
preceding one.