From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 2:59:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA02E37B404; Wed, 22 May 2002 02:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g4M9xop22348 ; Wed, 22 May 2002 11:59:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id LAA52501 ; Wed, 22 May 2002 11:59:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:59:50 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Brad Knowles , 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> References: <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522111104.B47352@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522185542.K45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020522185542.K45715@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:55:42PM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message