Re: [tied] One.

That's what I'm saying. <inny> is a recent innovation for older Polish <iny> (= OCS inU, Russ. inoj, etc.), meaning "another, not the same". The suffix -(e)n- was formerly used as a redundant extension with several Polish pronouns. The single -n- survives in Polish derivatives like <inaczej> 'otherwise', <inszy/inakszy> (dialectal synonyms of <inny>). Ban'kowski, like everybody else, derives *inU from the "one" word (*oi-no-, my *oi-h1n-o-) and regards the modern meaning as secondary.

Piotr

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 15:15:44 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote: >The actual Slavic reflex of PIE "one" is *inU, recycled semantically as "another, diferent". The original meaning survives in a couple of old compounds -- *ino-rogU 'unicorn' and *ino-xodU 'amble, lateral gait'. Ban'kowski proposes <in(n)y> "other" < inU < *oin-os.