Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA

Well, perhaps it is gaining confidence.

OK, Brian, discuss away.

I wlll have to re-read my own critique to see what you are talking about.


Patrick

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA


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> Brian, people have been spatting over those dice for a
> > long time. No Etruscan dictionary I know includes <thu>,
> > 'one', though you may, of course, be right.
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> I've yet to run into anyone whom I considered likely to be
> knowledgeable about Etruscan who *didn't* accept <thu(n)>
> '1'; the real question, as I understood it, is whether <sa>
> is '4' and <huth> is '6', or the reverse. Something that I
> read in a snippet of the Bonfantes' book available through
> Google Books suggested that there was some independent
> evidence pointing towards <sa> being '4', but I've no
> details.
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> Brian
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> Larissa Bonfante in
> La naissance des écritures, Seuil,
> clearly has
> thu "one"
> thunz "one time"
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> I think there is no doubt that
> thu is "one".
> An interesting point is
> the theta might write a glottalized
> sound not an aspirated one.
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> If you accept the comparison
> with Chinese dan4 < *t?ox-an
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> Arnaud
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