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

As I remember, 4 & 6 were questioned, but the others
were verified. The last thing I read had huth as 4
--referring to Hyttenia (sp?) as "Four Towns" and
related s'a to IE words for 6 but it was speculation


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

> At 8:23:26 PM on Wednesday, February 20, 2008,
> Patrick Ryan
> wrote:
>
> > From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
>
> [...]
>
> >> 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).
>
> > Sorry, but I am not aware pf thu(n), 'one'.
>
> > Where does this come from?
>
> There's a set of Etruscan dice on which the numbers
> are
> spelled out in words: thu, zal, ci, s'a, mach, huth.
> These
> must in some order be '1' through '6'. Other
> evidence shows
> that <ci> is '3'; it appears opposite <s'a>, which
> is
> therefore '4'. (Having opposite faces sum to 7 is
> an
> ancient custom.) I don't recall the details, but
> when all
> of the evidence is combined, it's most likely that
> the
> numbers are '1' - '6' in the order in which I listed
> them.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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