[Kadam] fedadel

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Mon Dec 18 22:42:39 GMT 2017


On 18 Dec 2017, at 18:17, Arden R. Smith <erilaz at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Ab sevobs, das tümologs hiela Cherpillod suvo binons dotabik, a.s. “kil (Fi kolme)”.

I do not entirely believe Cherpillod’s derivations for the numbers.

bal (tu bil)
tel (en two)
kil (fi kolme)
fol (en four)
lul (zh wǔ)
mäl (ja mu ?)
vel (en seven)
jöl (he ŝemoneʰ)
zül (zh jiǔ ?)
deg (gr δἐκα)
tum (la centum)
mil (la mille)
ser (fr zéro)

For 1-9 the most important thing to notice is that the vowels are all different. 
-a- -e- -i- -o- -u- -ä- -e- -ö- -ü-. Only -e- is used twice. They all end in -l. I guess it is conceivable that Turkish and Finnish could be associated with bal and kil but in that case the derivation is b-a-l, k-i-l, not a transformation of bil to bal and kol to kil. The underlying vowels are mnemonic here. I could believe vel < English seven. I think the derivations from Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew are reaching. I think deg is more likely < la decem, though I agree with Cherpillod on tum and mil. I am not sure why French is the source for ser; English would have done as well.

Michael



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