Re: Finnish KASKA

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> Two was *kukt-

Again a reconstruction of your own. Tell us frankly, is this relying
on internal PU evidence or some Sino-Tibeto-Siberian parrallels?

Jouppe

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

I just wrote that *käktä is older than Pre-Finnic *kakti, remember?

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

Well if you introduce a whole new typological feature like prefixed
redupliction it would again require quite some more solid
argumentation. Parallels for this in uralics??