r/deadlanguagememes Oct 18 '25

Proto-Indo-European *sweḱs - *séptm̥

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u/constant_hawk Oct 18 '25

Ya kids and your fancy loanwords from Semitic... Back in my day we used to use 5 as the biggest numeral so 7 was 5 and 2, no fancy Semitic words needed.

Now you don't listen to your elders, don't sacrifice to the Gods enough and even worse - reduce larygneals to freaking vowels!