Re: Afro-Austronesian numerals ?

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 66
Date: 2001-04-17

--- In nostratic@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The PA reconstruction is *telu, and the Tagalog form derives from
reduplicated *ta-telu (originally used in counting human beings).
Same with *duSa, *da-duSa (> dalawa) 'two'.
>
> Piotr
>
>

*t-t-l? Half reduplication? Interesting. That would be one way to get
to *t-t- from *t-l-.

Torsten

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