Tópico(s): Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
1890 - Oxford University Press | Notes and Queries
The Etymology of Numerals, or the question what primary ideas originally furnished the names for the different numbers, is a matter of considerable obscurity and uncertainty in many languages. Professor Bopp, in his Comparative Grammar of the Sanscritic Languages, translated into English by Lieutenant Eastwick, says, in vol. i. p. 427: “I do not think that any language whatever has produced special original words for the particular designation of such compacted and peculiar ideas as three, four, ...
Tópico(s): Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies
1884 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland