Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@> wrote:
> > Marathi koti and Hindi karode both mean 100 lakhs, and they are kentum
> > words.
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> > M. Kelkar
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> "Koti" is Sanskrit, used for 10E7 from at least the early
> centuries CE, and still used in several languages of India (see
> Wikipedia "Crore"). Aryabahata had names for all the powers of ten
> (see http://www.quadibloc.com/math/bignum.htm 2nd section for a list)
> that someone familiar with Indic languages might see etymologies for.
> "Karode" appears to be the familiar "crore".

Crore is the Anglicized version of karode.

I'm unclear as to

> whether it is supposed to be etymologically related to "koti" or not.
> Hobson-Jobson gives a number of variants as it sounded to the English
> ear, mostly something like "karur". None have a D sound in the second
> syllable --is "karode" possibly a typo?
> Dan

Karore could have been the precursor to crore. Many bilinguial Hindi
speakers change d to an r when speaking English. For example the last
name Bidla becomes Birla, a famous name in the business world.

M. Kelkar

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