Re: Ural-Altaic


Des Small schrieb:
> Ekkehard Dengler writes:
>
> > Peter T. Daniels schrieb:
> >
> > > The dual, of course, is found widely in IE languages [...]
> >
> > Could you name a few please?
>
> Only partly to annoy Peter, I'll refer you to the Wikipedia:
>
>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)#Dual_form_in_Indo-Eu
ropean_languages>
>

Thank you. Actually, they could have mentioned present-day Irish as well:

bliain amháin: one year
dhá bhliain: two years (My point is not that the "b" is lenited, but that
the ending is "-ain".)
trí bliana: three years

Regards,
Ekkehard


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