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From: "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...>
To: <Nostratica@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Nostratica] Cardinal and Ordinal Integers



> It also seems to me that calculus is a reduplicated word kal.kul. The word "kal" can be seen to mean "multiply" even as far back as in Sumerian. ....

It isn't a reduplication. Lat. calculus is the diminutive of <calx> 'stone, esp. limestone', and the morphological segmentation is /kalk-ul-/, not /kal-kul-/.

Piotr