From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60514
Date: 2008-09-30
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Richard Wordingham" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
>>> If I missed something, I'd be glad to get the right
>>> reference.
>
> You got the right reference twice, once directly from me,
> and once via Tinyurl from Richard. And Richard's Google
> search works both on <www.google.com> and <www.google.fr>.
>
> I don't know what your problem is, because the data are
> there. Specifically, it has the cognates for Akkadian,
> Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic (Syriac and Hebrew), Epigraphic
> South Arabian (specifically, Sabaean), Ge'ez, Hebrew, Mehri,
> Tigrinya, Phoenician and Punic, Tigre, and Ugaritic.
>
> Brian
>
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Sorry, but I still don't have your reference.
In zompist, they give the following forms :
Many forms start with the sequence t(a)l-
I really can see why one should posit s' as initial,
this is just absurd.
Tal developped into thal then shal
not the other way round.
Arabic thala:thah
Kashka-Darya (Uzbeki) sala:s
Saudi (Najdi) talaata
Yemeni thalaatheh
Syrian (Levantine) tla:te
Lebanese tlêti
Cypriot tláxe (different but irrelevant I suppose)
Iraqi thilaatha
Egyptian tala:ta
E Libyan thi'la:th
Algerian (Darja) thla:tha
Moroccan tlata
Sudanese tala|ata
Nigerian tala:ta
Zanzibari thela:the
Maltese tlieta
Phoenecian+ sh-l-sh
Ugaritic+ t-l-t
Moabite+ sh-l-sh
Classical Hebrew+ shâlôsh
Modern Hebrew shalosh
Classical Aramaic+ tela:tha:h (complementary distribution of t and th ?)
Modern Aramaic tlo:ta:
Classical Syriac+ tela:tha (complementary distribution of t and th ?)
Syriac tla:tha
Van tlå (no final)
South Old S. Arabian+ th-l-th
South Arabian (Harsusi) s'e'lays'
Sheri (Jibbali) s'ha'lith (different)
Soqotra 's'ile (no final)
N Ethiopic
Geez+ shelestu (different : phonotaxis ?)
Tigre salas
Beni Amir salas
Tigrinya sälästes
S Ethiopic
Amharic sost
Argobba sost
Harari shi'ishti
E Gurage she:sht
Gafat+ swostä
Soddo sost
Goggot sost
Muher (W Gurage) soost
Masqan sost
CW Gurage sost
Ennemor so?ost