My source is Ronald Emmerick: "Iranian",
pp. 289-345 (= Chapter 8) in: , ed. Jadranka Gvozdanovic' (ed.) _Indo-European
Numerals_, Berlin, New York (1992). Emmerick has studied Khotanese
since the 1960's:
The Khotanese numerals from 4 to 10
are:
tcahora, paMjsa, ks.äta', hauda, has't'a,
nau, dasau
Piotr
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 5:36 AM
Subject: [phoNet] Re: Phonetic change lo -- no in some
languages
--- In phoNet@y..., "Piotr
Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@i...> wrote:> I've
checked the form of Iranian numerals. They are unproblematic.
Proto-
Iranian *nava [nawa] changed regularly into Avestan nauua [nawa],
Khotanese nau [sic!], Sogdian nw' [nawa], etc.
'nau' in Khotanese?
How come, the form, 'nyoh' is mentioned and
elaborated upon elsewhere, e.g.
Belvalkar's article cited in Turner's
CDIAL?
I forgot to mention
about the Austro-asiatic tom, 'nine' and the
reflexes in Kannada. In
Kannada, om-battu = nine [i.e. one deficient
ten]; but, tom-battu = ninety
[nine times ten]; cf. Tamil pattu =
ten; Kannada hattu = ten; Telugu padi =
ten.
Austro-asiatic thus shows two terms for nine: <are>,
<tom> Possibly,
<lo> if the Santali synonym is and old
reckoning.
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