Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families) are loans

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

Richard wrote:

> The usual
> polite Thai second person pronoun, /khun_M/ (_M = mid tone), derives
> from Sankrit or Pali _guNa_ 'thread; quality' (as in the Sanskrit
> vowel grade). Likewise there's the formal /ta nu_H/ 'I; self' from
> Sanskrit/Pali _tanus-_/_tanu-_/_tanu:- 'body, self'.

> ***
> Patrick:
>
> /khun_M/ from_guNa_? What an odd semantic development!
>
> /ta nu_H/ may be arguable.

And according to Southworth (quoted at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/2880 ),
the latter is also well-embedded in Dravidian!

Richard.