Abstract
The A. explores the cognitive possibility that early people, in the course of cultural exchange in Eurasia, may have sequentially equated the numbers for counting with the time series used in the archaic Chinese calendar and in the zodiac calendar with twelve symbolic animals. In the case of the number four, as a result of this cognitive tendency, the Anatolian numerals for four (Hittite mieu-, miu, Luwian mauwa-) had a connection with Chinese mau 3 (Old Sinitic * mau / * meu) the fourth of the twelve earthly branches. This argument is also based on the observation that Chinese mau 2 anchor (with four flukes) may have resulted from a quadripartite perception. The semantic correlation drawn from this observation is then used to address the cognitive process underlying the nomenclature of four-sided cropfield and four-footed beasts in Eurasia.
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