---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <grvs@...> wrote:
>
>It would be interesting to hear about the intelligent possibilities of
> *ok^t (or *h3k^t or even double *h3k^t).
>
I'm afraid this won't work without recurring to *external* data, something which many IE-ists (including some in this list) are relunctant to do. For IE '8', good comparanda are Uralic *kakta/*käktä '2' and Altaic *gàgtà 'one a pair'. As Kartvelian '4' seems to be a loanword from IE *Hok^te-H3u (including the dual suffix -H3u), it looks like this numeral was originally '4' (i.e. the dual of '2') and then was pressed into '8', leaving an empty semantic niche.
> - *-kWe in *pen-kWe (1234 and the *pen-).
>
As I said before, this is a mere *ilusion*.