Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 51071
Date: 2008-01-01

Yes and hundred *dkemtm (vel sim) is "big hand" and
thousand is "swollen hand". You gotta give a hand to
them cunning linguists.


--- Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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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