Re: Finnish KASKA

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

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> 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"

Very early on in my work on Indo-Tyrrhenian I had been thinking along
the lines of Etr tH corresponding to a PIE laryngeal, but I couldn't
find any other examples and I couldn't explain the Etr u PIE *oi
correspondence. So I gave up on the idea.