Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 51066
Date: 2008-01-01

tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > 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.
>
Does this mean that <dek'mt> "ten" is from *d(w)e-k'(o)mt "two hands, two fives, ten"?  And Gmc
<handuz> is from this same *k'omt-?
Andrew
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