Re: [tied] The 1ps pronoun *ego:... or is it *eg?

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> [Glen]
> >What on earth does *eg come from, by the way? Certainly not from *e-ge,
> >an emphatic form of *e "here" since we _still_ have to conclude that
> >the word has eroded from *e-ge to *eg. And perhaps I'm mistaken,
> >but I recall no language that has come to use "here" as a reference
> >to the 1ps, even though the semantics might seem vaguely possible.


> [Miguel]
> Japanese <anata> "on that (other) side" -> "you".
> Korean <i mom.i> "this body (this)" -> "I".

And American journalist style <this reporter> "I".

Jens