Re: Finnish KASKA

Interesting. At one point you mention deriving *dwo: from a dual of an
unattested **dwo meaning one. The suggestion was made to indicate an
absurdity and you weren't seriously proposing it. However, what if
this suggestion is correct? Of course it would be hard to prove
without an attested form of **dwo for one. But perhaps such an
attestation exists. Not in PIE, but in Etruscan. The Etruscan number
one is tHu(n).

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PIE *dwô is from *t_?_m?
like in Hebrew te?omi "twin".
This word is old.
It combines with k_? "one"
to form the word "three"
ka?-t_?om?
hence PU *ka?lom "three"
Hungarian is long ha:rom
and Basque hiru "three"
might be here too.
No -m- kept !!

Dwô is not a dual.

Arnaud

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