At 9:11:32 PM on Tuesday, February 19, 2008, Rick
McCallister wrote:
> Yes, I seem to remember that years back, someone
> commented on 2, 4 and 8 in IE and Caucasian, among
> other languages. Something about the dual endings. I
> seem to remember Miguel was involved in the
> discussion.
You may be thinking of Alexis Manaster Ramer's 'Some
Borrowed Numerals in Proto-Karvelian'; if I remember
correctly, he suggested that PK '4' is a borrowing of PIE
'8'. Relevant posts here include
<
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/34212>
and
<
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/4682>,
both by Miguel; the former is in a thread containing several
relevant posts.
Brian