Re: Finnish KASKA

I don't know if the root exists anywhere in PIE, aside from the dual
form *dwo:. The number one is interesting. There are two roots for
one, *sem and *H3ei. The root for first is unrelated, *pro.
Ray

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*sem is more something like "entire, in one part"

I first could not recognize this *H3ei thing.
the correct reconstruction is *H2o(H1)y-
where H2 is *dh?
Etruscan thu < *dh?o
Chinese dan < *dh?oH-an
The word meant "alone, solitary"

*pro can be old
if we accept that p_r is related
to PU words meaning "head"
the meaning is probably "ahead of"
hence first

now we also have kae-lebs
root *ka? "one"
segmented from word
three = one + two

ARnaud

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