Re: [romanceconlang] Carrajena numbers

From: Adam Walker (carrajena@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 14:53:30 EST


--- Padraic Brown <elemtilas@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Adam Walker <carrajena@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > parru parru
> > chimvi findu
>
> > And I don't like the fact that both four and
> > fourth are parru, but I'm not sure what to do
> > about that.
>
> Why do anything about it!? ;) How are chimvi and
> findu related, if at all?
>
> Padraic.
>

Perhaps I shan't. I can't think of any good reason
why *everything* in C-a should be to my liking. Findu
and chimvi are related.

Chimvu is derrived from VL *cinque ci>chi nque>mvi.

Findu is derived from L quintas qui>fi (same as above
but without the voicing environment) and t>d.

Adam



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