Re: elementary Sanskrit blunder by Harvard professor

<analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No I am just saying that its an amazing coincidence that alone among
the Sanskrit-like numerals in Mitanni - 'satta' that would destroy
Witzel's pre-vedic claim conveniently turns out to have 'sinti' in
Hurrian it could have been derived from.

Is there a simple explanation of why Hurrian having _santi_ for '7' would cause sapta- to become satta-? It's not immediately apparent to me.

We seem to lack the knowledge to challenge my sugestion that -pt- was just to un-Hurrian. And, Analyst41, note that these sound changes could have happened in the Hurrian language rather than the Aryan language from which they are borrowed. Retentions are informative; losses are much harder to interpret.

Richard.

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