Re: Mille (thousand)

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 54889
Date: 2008-03-09

I've seen that but wondered about it
Was the *s- reanalyzed as s-mobile?

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carl Hult
>
> What is the origin of latin mille, the roman word
> för thousand? Does it
> have any relation to other words?
>
> Carl Hult
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> http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE164.html
>
> It's supposed to be a compound :
> sm "one"
> ghil- "thousand"
>
> Arnaud
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