Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 00:07:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, cjc26@cornell.edu, 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: <3CEC953D.BC381977@mindspring.com> References: <20020522192335.P47352@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.SOL.3.91.1020522160649.23407A-100000@travelers.mail.cornell.edu> <20020522215236.GA1640@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523144550.C230@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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
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