Relationship between eight and night - sci.lang

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D. Edward Gund v. Brighoff

Meer opties 27 feb 1998, 09:00

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Van: d...@midway.uchicago.edu (D. Edward Gund v. Brighoff)

Datum: 1998/02/27

Onderwerp: Re: Relationship between eight and night

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In article <34F736AB.3F8AC...@rdw.nl>, Dirk Bilker <dbil...@rdw.nl> wrote:

>For a long time I have been intrigued by the mysterious relationship
>between the words eight and night. In almost (?) all Indo-European
>languages the rule is: n + 8 = night. The peculiar thing of course is
>that this is true for Germanic as well as Latin oriented languages. See
>the following list:

>English eight night
>French huit nuit
>Spanish ocho noche
>Italian otto notte
>Portuguese oito noite
>Rumanian opt noapte
>German acht Nacht
>Dutch acht nacht
>Swedish atta natt
>Danish otte nat
>Norwegian atte natt
>Esperanto ok nokto

[snip]

Welsh wyth nos
Irish ocht oidhche
Bulgarian osem nosht
Polish osiem noc
Russian vosem' noch'
Armenian ut' gich'er

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