Use of 'lo' for numeral 'nine' in inscriptions

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I shall be grateful for info. on PIE numeral 'nine'. Was there

a l- in any of the European language words?

 

The numeral 'nine' in Munda is 'lo'. The l- > n- transforms between

Munda and Bengali are attested (e.g. loe ? noe). The Khotanese form

for nine is: nyoh.

 

It is hypothesized that the form for 'nine' in Para-Munda is loh-

(rebus homonym: loha, metal, ore). The phonetic changes may be stated

as follows: loh-, noh-, noe, no, nava establishing the substrate link

between early Indo-Aryan and Munda and between Munda and Dravidian

languages. [cf. on-patu for nine in Tamil which may be a metath.

reflex of 'no' nine].

 

The count of nine is emphatic in a few pictorial motifs. See

http://www.hindunet.org/munda/mundanine.htm