¶ Old Words
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Old Words:
“If you take the names for numbers, there are amongst old words-- etymologically-- there are a few words that go back of any knowledge of their derivation by any of the scholars, and these are spoken of as old words. And the names for numbers are all in the old words, that is, they transcend any possible discovery by man today-- of anything we know so far about how they were evolved. None of them have any identity with experience other than just the abstract number itself, except for the name for five, which very often has the same root as that for hand… which is very logical.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at SIMS, U. Mass., Amherst, Talk 12, p.23, 22 Jul’71
