From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 54925
Date: 2008-03-09
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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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Whether short or long, at least the Uralicists have a vowel
in *kolm-. You don't have one in san ~ gsum ~ három.
Miguel
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It's ugly to delete
my reconstruction and then declare
that I have no vowel in it.
This is old-style Soviet way of summarizing
other people's points of view.
Delete, distort, then say it's wrong.
I will just restate what I have already said
a dozen of times
but it seems it takes time
for data to reach the brain.
My reconstruction as previously stated
is ka?-t_?om?
where ka? is "one"
and t_?om? "two".
I don't know which vowel was between
t and ? (probably unstressed *a)
Uralic is (usually) stressed on first syllable.
Hence
ka?-t_?om? > PU *ka:t?om
ST is oxytone hence
ka?-t_?om? > ST *ktsom
Further Tib gsum
(g is not voiced :
it contrasts only with h spirant)
Further Chinese *sam.
Basque ka?t_?om? >
ha:rom > hiru.
t_?om? > t?w > PIE dw-o.
Note that basque laur "four"
can be connected with t_?om?
thru ta?om?-ta?om? >
ta?o-t?o > lau-r-u
(m? lost ; t?>r)
Don't be afraid to ask for more.
Arnaud
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