@contrex,
<b> Links Are Part of Something That Chains Us Down </b>
I have a higher IQ than the professors you want me to link to. Besides, their mental growth was stunted by years of childish submission to their own professors.
It is commonly known that primitive people have no real numbers. They would indicate "one" by pointing to the chest, representing "fingernail." I got the inspiration for this when I found out that the Spanish for fingernail is
un(y)a, too close to "uno" to let it pass. It is related to "inch, ounce," and "onyx."
T, which sometimes changes to D in related languages, indicates "pointing" or "over there." "Two" is related to "the, that, to, too," and the TH part of "there," as opposed to "here."
Where T changed to D, we get Latin digitus, "finger," Greek deiknumi "I show (the root of English "paradigm")," and English "dog," which means "pointer." It doesn't surprise me that academic etymologists are too stupid to realize something so obvious.
After "counting" to two, the primitive pre-Indo-Europeans had no more numbers, so they expressed more than two by waving the hand. So our "many" originally came from the same prehistoric word that Latin "manus" came from.