Re: Mille (thousand)

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 54909
Date: 2008-03-09

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:30:30 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>>
>>Chinese Mandarin san1 "three"
>>and Tibetan gsum have a clear relationship
>>with Uralic Hungarian ha:rom.
>
>Of course those stupid Uralicists derive the Hungarian form
>from PFU *kolmi (Finn. kolme, Saami gol'bmâ, Mordvin kolmo,
>Mari këm ~ kuum, Udmurt kwin'(m-), Komi kujim; Mansi kuurem,
>Xanty käälem, Hung három).
>Miguel
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>
>I let you explain how supposedly *kolmi :
>with a short o and -l-
>can become ha:rom with long a: and -r-
>Mansi is long too : kuurem, xuurem, koorem.
>Now Ostyak has xutem.
>I let you explain how to get -t- out of -l-.
>MAybe you have some magical wand(s)
>to solve these implausible equations.
>
>Uralicists are not stupid.
>They just should apply the comparative method,
>look at the data, establish correspondances,
>and reconstruct proto-forms according to that.

Whether short or long, at least the Uralicists have a vowel
in *kolm-. You don't have one in san ~ gsum ~ három.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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