Primo:
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A "universal", "empty" case is pseudolinguistic trash. Nothing like
vagueries to prove an empty arguement. It doesn't even make the slightest
sense in this context since *e-g^e would still mean "here" and not "I" -
this is why the inclusion of the 1ps *-o: element in our analysis is
absolutely paramount.
Secundo:
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In the specific context of *eg^o:, *e can only be translated into English as
"here" because of the first person connotation. Duh! One day I may
understand why you are still confused about this. The IndoIranian
development of its ending *-am is entirely irrelevant in further discussion
because it developed only dialectally at a PostIE date.
Tertio:
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If Latin, Germanic, Tocharian, Celtic, Balto-Slavic, Greek and Indo-Iranian
all show *s(w)ek^s, then I hardly see why Armenian must be explained at the
IE level. It was no doubt affected by Kartvelian languages afterall. To add,
Tocharian is quite the ancient branch showing best the archaic non-*u-
features of IE (A s�k, B skas).
Numero Quatro:
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Your views on IE as well as Semitic are clearly demented. IE *-k^s comes
from the consonant cluster in the Semitic word for six, possibly *-dT- or
*-tT-. At any rate, it could never EVER be reconstructed as **-s^s^- when
Arabic's reflex is /sitta/ and not */sissa/. We _must_ reconstruct a medial
*T (IPA "thorn"). Now you're being so inane as to contradict Semitic studies
as well! Amazing.
Finally:
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You fail to convincely explain a contradictive development of *us > *yus as
anything other than a "euphonic" prefix *y- rather than conforming to the
more apparent, less involved explanation. The accusative forms are quite
obviously zeroed, eroded forms in contrast to the fuller nominative (*ns
"us" < *mes). Thus *yus must indeed be original with an eroded *us for
oblique cases, in firm opposition to your pretend soundlaw.
In all, you would rather stubbornly cling to inferior, immediately
self-contradicting ideas than to conform to common sense. Strange. What
stops you in the morning from mistaking your hand for a slice of bread and
popping it in the toaster, I wonder.
- gLeN
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