Cher Miguel,
The reconstruction of *ego: is much, much more common in
materials than **eg. The former only makes more sense when
the term is properly etymologized. Did any of the people who
reconstructed **eg go to any length to etymologize the word or
to explain why the stem is treated like a verb with an attached
1ps VERBAL ending *-om/*-o: if it was not a verb? No.
So, *ego: is by far a superior reconstruction than **eg and is
very much the mainstream reconstruction.
And still, where is your lovely example of "here" being used
synonymously for the 1ps in any real language known to humankind???
I have /uva-nga/ to explain *eg-o:, and what do you have? Still
can't find anything, eh?
- gLeN
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