Re: Sos-

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> Is there no chance that 'hand' might be related to the word for
> 'ten', *dk^mt-, which might be analyzed as *du k^mt- "two hands"
> (ten fingers)?

More likely from *ka/unt- "collection, flock"

> That's a popular explanation, in popular books, blogs, etc. I've
> never seen it pursued by any professional linguists, though.But ten <
> taihun as "two hands" is appealling,

That's the same word as 'decem'

> hundred as "hand-rad/rath"

*kunt-rát-, Gmc. *raþ- "number", cognate with Latin ratio:, note both have -a-, thus 'mot populaire', thus means "the *kunt- number", since *kunt- otherwise meant "collection, flock"

> i.e. handful and
> thousand as thous-hand "swollen hand'

*þus- "swollen" doesn't sound appealing. Note the distribution: Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Baltic Finnic, and the suffix going -int, -ant, -unt, cf.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/62159
Any connection with the
*-tuxan- : *-tuGan- "Führer"
thing? A bigger army than the *ka/unt- thing?

> do sound appealling.The problem is that I don't know of any other
> IE  language that parallel this. You could try to stretch things
> and claim a relationship between Latin capio and centum --I can
> just see Brian laughing himself out of his chair over that one.

Or you could.

Hi, Brian!



Torsten