Re: Burushaski

From: stlatos
Message: 54068
Date: 2008-02-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

> Kh.
>
> s pl
>
> 1 awà ispà
> 2 tù pisà
> 3near (ha)yà (ha)mìt
> 3near (ha)mò (ha)mìtan (obl.)
> 3far hès hèt
> 3unseen (ha)sè (ha)tèt

The Khowar verb endings:

s pl

1 -m -si / -m
2 -s / -u -mi
3 -r / -i -ni

might indicate confusion/exchange in 1/2 pl (understandable if both once *ispa) but
another possibility is:

*-masi > *-msi > *-nsi > -si

*-tana: > *-tna: > *-tma > -mi (-i < other verb end.)


More about various etymologies at:

http://users.sedona.net/~strand/IndoAryan/Chitral/Khow/KhowLanguage/Lexicon/Khowa
r.html