From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 23 0: 8:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606D637B403; Thu, 23 May 2002 00:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0170.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.170] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Amhz-00068X-00; Thu, 23 May 2002 00:08:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3CEC953D.BC381977@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 00:07:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , cjc26@cornell.edu, Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sanskrit numbers (was: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)) References: <20020522192335.P47352@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522215236.GA1640@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523144550.C230@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 wrote: > >>> How do people arrive at "Hoi(H)nos" and "h3ekteh3" (how do you > >>> pronounce those "3"s?) in PIE? > >> Sorry, those are supposed to be "h"s with a subscript "3", which is kind > >> of an unusual sound pronounced something like "hw". > > > > [example of reconstruction of sounds] > > It's interesting how many "h"-related sounds PIE had. I wonder if > it's indicative of the way human language has evolved over that > period. If we are placing bets, mine is that it's based on biomechanics. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message