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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: proto-nostratic and 6 & 7
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 22:28:46 GMT
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svoboda@transam.ece.cmu.edu writes:

>Russian is a fluke :). Counting above 5 may require one to borrow words, which
>may account for the PIE and PAA similarities for the words for 'six' and


Probably not. Farsi panj/penj (five) and penche [claw, paw] seem
to be related too.



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Regards, Mark

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