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Old 10-07-2018, 11:55 AM
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Default Re: Linguistic miscellany

It came as some surprise to me that sata, the Finnish word for one hundred, shares a common root with hundred itself.

(a) It doesn't sound even vaguely similar, but that's evolution of language for you; French cent and hundred aren't immediately obviously related, let alone Russian сто.

(b) Proto-Finno-Uralic languages aren't supposed to have any common roots with Proto-Indo-European languages ... ah OK, it's a loan word.



Evolution of “hundred” in Indo-European languages
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