Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA

Thanx. That's the gist of it. Maybe Arnaud can add
something interesting.

--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

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