Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

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

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@>

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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > > Bangani almost did too, we're talking about a few dozen kentum
> > > words surviving.
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> > Marathi koti and Hindi karode both mean 100 lakhs, and they are
> > kentum words.
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> I could see that Marathi koti could be derived from PIE *k^mtom, but
> in order to make such a claim, one would prefer to list some dozen
> words, or the like (as in the case of Bangani) which follow the same
> sound-laws in their development from PIE. I feel more doubtful

towards

> Hindi karode. What do the etymological dictionaries of Marathi and
> Hindi have to say about them?
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> Torsten

Sansrkit Koti means sharp or a peak of a hill. In Marathi kot is
used to refer to a tall fort. Indra is refered to as satakoti with
100 sharp points

Page 14 second para of the following. Koti could relate to IIr *kauti

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M. kelkar

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