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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@> wrote:
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> > Marathi Koti and Hindi Karode means 10,000,000 a multiple of kentum.
I thought of the above after reading the following (Abbi 1997) Bangani
word.
"12.(15) kO:~.tia ëseveral hundred, hundreds of <PIE kmto-. Compare
OIA Sata
Surprisingly, we found this word attested by some informants in the
metaphoric meaning of 'many', 'too many' etc. just as on the pattern
of 1A and its dialects (such as Hindi .vdff~ ' hundreds', 'many'. This
definitely draws our attention to the possibility of this word of
Kentum origin as suggested by Zoller (1988,1989) or being associated
to some Western IE language. "
M. Kelkar