Re: What is the plural demonstrative pronoun in PIE?

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 46849
Date: 2006-12-31

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
>
> I've looked in both the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture and in
> the Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-
> European World, but nowhere did I find words matching "these"
> or "those".
> Surely such things existed in PIE. How else could one say "I want
> THESE" or "I give them praise"?
> Does anyone know what these reconstructed words would be?
>
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Reconustructed by Beeks (IEL, pp. 204).

Masculine nominative plural: toi
Neuter plural: teH2
Feminine: seH2i??

Accusative m. : tons
Neuter: teH2
Feminine: teH2ns

Konushevci