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Thread #11483   Message #3897783
Posted By: GUEST,Theoriser
06-Jan-18 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Yan Tan Tethera - more words in the count?
Subject: RE: Yan Tan Tethera - more words in the count?
I've just had a look at the numbers in Old Welsh, two is "dou", in Modern Welsh it's dau; there's nothing like tan, tyan or the other variants. In no other branches of the Indo-European languages apart from Anatolian does four begin with a letter m.