PIE verbs (6) -- no use pretending they're simple

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 7315
Date: 2001-05-14

MCLSSAA2 states:
>Is there any chance that in one version or stage of PIE, one form of the
>1pl was "we including you" and another form was "we excluding you"?

I don't see such a stage myself ever having happened. Some
neighbouring languages appear to have had this, however, like
NEC (Nakh-Daghestinian) for instance. For Old IE, I personally
would reconstruct *wei for 1pp and active *-me/stative *-we for
verb endings.

- gLeN

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