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Welsh 1 óen aon aon *un un 2 dá dó dà *daa dau 3 trí trí trì tree tri 4
cethair ceathair ceithir kiare pedwar 5 cóic cúig còig
queig pump 6 sé sé sia shey...
- languages, as
Oscan petora ‘four’, Gr**** τέσσαρες téssares ‘four’, Old
Irish cethair ‘four’,
Gothic fidwôr ‘four’,
Lithuanian keturì ‘four’, Old
Church Slavonic...
- *p sound. Thus,
Gaulish petuar[ios],
Welsh pedwar "four", but Old
Irish cethair and
Latin quattuor.
Insofar as this new /p/
fills the gap in the phoneme...
- śtwar śtwer téttares, téssares catvā́ras, catúras
quattuor *fedwōr fidwōr
cethair *četỳre *kʷetwóres five päñ piś pénte páñca quīnque *fimf fimf cóic *pętь...
- to a u: PIE *kʷetwóres, neut. *kʷetwṓr "four" >
quattuor (cf. Old
Irish cethair,
Lithuanian keturì,
Sanskrit catvā́r-) PIE *leikʷ- (pres. *li-né-kʷ-) "leave...
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Examples of
deletion include: *ardwos > ard /ard/ "high" *kʷetwores >
cethair /kʲeθərʲ/ "four" *swesūr > siur /sʲiur/ "sister" *w was lost
between two...
