From: Rick McCallister
Message: 51071
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
>
> Messages in this topic (15) Reply (via web post) |
> Start a new topic
> Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database |
> Polls | Members
> MARKETPLACE
>
> ---------------------------------
> Earn your degree in as few as 2 years - Advance
> your career with an AS, BS, MS degree -
> College-Finder.net.
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> ---------------------------------
> Earn your degree in as few as 2 years - Advance
> your career with an AS, BS, MS degree -
> College-Finder.net.
>
>
>
> Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
> Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily
> Digest | Switch format to Traditional
> Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use |
> Unsubscribe
>
> Recent Activity
>
> 3
> New Members
>
> Visit Your Group
> New business?
> Get new customers.
> List your web site
> in Yahoo! Search.
>
> Moderator Central
> Yahoo! Groups
> Get the latest news
> from the team.
>
> Curves on Yahoo!
> Share & discuss
> Curves, fitness
> and weight loss.
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>
>