Re: [tied] The idea of the root *h1eg^ ("I", "to speak")

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 46575
Date: 2006-11-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> Perhaps the nonconnectibility of *tu- with any root
suggesting 'hear' (which we might reasonably expect in the second
person as a counterpart to 'speak(er)' in the first person) suggests
an alternative explanation.
>
>
> Patrick



Or maybe not Patrick, If we will consider PIE *tuH as an Old loan
from another Language where the meaning was really 'to hear':

Look at http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?
root=config&morpho=0&basename=\data\bush\xamet&first=361:

where you will find the Root *tu- as 'to hear'

"
Proto-!Wi : *t́u

Stems : *tu-i

Meaning : to hear

Bushman etymology :

|Xam : ttú, ttúï, tūï, ttóรค (B.); ttŭ́, ttúï̆ (Ll.)

//Ng : tu, tūi

#Khomani : tjhu (Mg.)

//Kxau : tu

Seroa : tu (Wu.)

//Xegwi (Batwa) : tūi

|Auni : tu, tūi

References : Bleek 186, 191, 204, 206, 239, 240.
"


Maybe only a coincidence but we also have more than one root
for 'you' in PIE

Marius