I'll try to condense my arguement to better illuminate on Miguel's inability
to address valid points against his science-fictional view of Early IE.
1) The "universal case suffix"
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Define "universal case suffix".
2) Interpretation of *eg^o:
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While there is no evidence afaik for a thematic verb **eg^(h)e-
"to be here", another undeniable fact also remains that there is
no **e as first person singular. The particle *e is known to be
a locative particle meaning "here", *ge/*ghe is known to be an
emphatic particle and *-o: is well known to be the 1ps thematic,
translated only as "I". Therefore, no matter what dillusion you
are under, you can ONLY interpret *e-g^(h)-o: as literally
"here-[emphatic]-I" or rather "I am here".
Forms showing a common IE **eg^ are an illusion caused by
erosion of a commonly used pronoun with a dispensable final
vowel. Indo-Iranian's *-am ending is found throughout all
_three_ persons.
3) The **-we accusative that doesn't exist
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It is simply NOT rational to jump to the _assumption_ that just
because we have *me, *twe and *swe that "it's only logical to
suppose that *m� comes from *mw�". The common phonetics may have
been brought about by common sound changes from an earlier *mu,
*tu and *su. Further your dual and plural reconstructions are
corrupt. You obviously have trouble distinguishing certainty from
probability and reality from fantasy.
4) The soundlaw that breaks its own law
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>> IE **usweks, *sweks < *sWesWek^s
>> IE *yus, **us < *sWesW-
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>What I'm saying is that there was a soundlaw *swesw > *usw.
You're saying nonsense. A soundlaw based on two made-up examples that can't
even explain the ACTUAL IE reconstructions, *yus and *swek^s! There is no
**us, **usW or **uswek^s in common IE. Idionsyncratic dialectal forms are
not a substitute for proto-IndoEuropean itself. Please adapt to reality.
- gLeN
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