Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-Iranian/Hnáwa

Final -n

How can this have lost the final -n when Sanskrit still has it? —CodeCat 00:27, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

@CodeCat: That's the stem, the masc. nom. is नव (nava). PIE *n̥ always goes to PII *a. —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 15:17, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

This numeral didn't even inflect in PIE from what I can tell. —CodeCat 15:19, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

@CodeCat: They did in Sanskrit, Avestan, and (I believe) Old Persian. I'd be surprised if it wasn't inflected in PIE; it definitely was in PII. नवन् (navan) has a declension shown. —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 23:34, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Only the numbers 1-4 are known to have inflections in PIE, the ones above didn't. I don't know of any other language that inflects the numbers 5 and above (Slavic doesn't count, its numbers 5-9 are actually nouns). —CodeCat 23:45, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Weird, I never knew that. All I can tell you is that the descendants all reflect masc. nom. *Hnáwa, and that they all decline it like every other numeral. The reconstruction is very likely accurate. —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 00:10, 20 May 2017 (UTC)