Indo-European words for "four".
Around the outside are 64 living Indo-European languages and their words for 4.
Within that the words for 4 in historic languages, going back 4000+ years all the way to Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Around the outside are 64 living Indo-European languages and their words for 4.
Within that the words for 4 in historic languages, going back 4000+ years all the way to Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Comments
Old Welsh just had quite an unusual spelling system, including using ⟨p, t, c⟩ to represent the voiced plosives /b, d, ɡ/, and using ⟨u⟩ to represent both the consonant /w/ and vowel /u/.
Spelling then became more phonetic during the Middle Welsh period.