Relationship between eight and night - sci.lang

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

Meer opties 28 feb 1998, 09:00

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Van: m...@wxs.nl (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal)

Datum: 1998/02/28

Onderwerp: Re: Relationship between eight and night

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On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 21:56:59 +0000, 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

etc.

O.Irish ocht (nocht)
Welsh wyth nos
Greek okto: nuks
Albanian tete" nate"
Russian vosem' noch'
Lithuanian as^tuoni naktis
Sanskrit as.t.a: nakt-

(Albanian, Armenian and Tocharian have other words for "night",
Hittite "evening" is nekuts, but we don't the word for 8).

All of these from PIE *ok^to: "eight", vs. *nokwt-/*nekwt- "night".

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