Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

> Worldwide, both *pa and *ta seem to be involved in a great many

words > for senior male relative.
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> > I was pleased to notice the reconstructions for the number 5,
> > *f-h\a_X and even moreso upon seeing the Proto-Sino-Caucasian
> > reconstruction, *xNwäH\V. What pleased me was the similarity to
> > the Indo-European *peNk_we [usual notation *penkWe - RW]. If a
> > parallel were to be made, one might suppose that the final syllable of
> > the Proto-Sino-Caucasian was dropped, leaving something like
> > *xNwE;

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> It doesn't take much imagination to see a connection with Semitic
> *H-m-s either. Neither is compelling in the absence of other
> correspondences.
> Richard.

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Arnaud
I would rather cut penkwe as pen = pan "whole" and kwe "hand".
From k-m?-
As in Hebreu t-?-m?- "twin" > PIE d-w (t+? = d)
Hence from k-m?
Arabic x-m-s (x = velar unvoiced spirant)
Uralic kom-t, kum-en, hand, five, ten
PIE pen-kwe : entire hand = five
And as usual !!
Germanic loanword from an Asiatic language : komt > hand
And *hant-i being a "root-noun" does not protect it from being a loanword.

Arnaud
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