Re: Finnish KASKA

This is the first time I hear of umlaut though. I frankly don't think
it is possible to increase the economy of interpretation by this
invention. Finnic also went the other way *kektä or *käktä became
Finnish kaksi '2' for example. Nobody knows why. But Indo-
Europeanists would know that numerals are tricky.

Jouppe
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Two was *kukt-
and the -i- is a later addition of Finnish
after *kukt bacame *kakt
in Western Uralic.

Mordvin is kafta and kawto
with no -i-.
Data are stubborn...

And this root for number two
has a strange look-alike
with word "four" kwetw(er)
A kind of reduplication
ku-kwt-

Arnaud
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