Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:59:50 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sanskrit numbers (was: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)) Message-ID: <20020522115950.D47352@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020522185542.K45715@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:55:42PM %2B0930 References: <p05111703b90fc048bd8f@[10.0.1.4]> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111705b90fe1afee46@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111723b910fac1be02@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522111104.B47352@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522185542.K45715@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey said on May 22, 2002 at 18:55:42:
> Apart from that, it's interesting to note that Sanskrit is closer to
> the Swiss pronunciation of French numbers :-)
>
> soixante sixty sechzig sasti
> septante seventy siebzig saptati
> octante eighty achtzig asiti
> nonante ninety neunzig navati
Interesting. I had a look at the latin numbers, and they're really
strikingly similar to Sanskrit, with the notable exception of "one"
("eka" in Sanskrit, which doesn't seem similar to any Western
language). Also take "twenty" -- "vimshati" in Sanskrit, very
similar to "viginti" in Latin or "vingt" in French, but quite
different from the English and German words. (In fact many other
English and German numbers -- four, five, hundred, thousand -- seem to
have very little resemblance to Latin or Greek, whereas their French
equivalents clearly come from Latin and are often similar to
Sanskrit.)
- Rahul
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