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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:00:24 -0000, "tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >If the old nominative was *mu, parallel to *tu, as Glen suggests,

it

> >might be *eg^Ho-mu (Miss Piggy says: "Moi, I ...")
>
> That's indeed what I've been saying all along (**a-ga > *eg^,
> **a-ga-mu > **aga:mW > *eg^om and **aga:mW + i > **aga:mWu >

**eg^owu

> > *eg^o:).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

And, even earlier, maybe it wasn't *mu, but the *m-n- "soul, self"
word (by its occurrence) a real Ruhlen-world word)

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/mn.html

since "I" is Finnish <minä>, Etruscan <mini>(?), and (is this true?)
Lithuanian <man> = "self"?

Now one can really wax lyrical and say we have caught a glimpse of
the genesis of the concept of "self"?

Torsten