Re: [tied] One.

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:> *oi-
h1n-o- is structured like (more conjectural) *dwi-h1n-o- 'two at one
time, two each' (Lat. bi:ni:), so perhaps the original meaning
was "one at a time, just one, taken separately". Of course "little
*oi-" appears in other combinations as well (Indo-Aryan ai-ka-,
Iranian *ai-va-); an independent meaning like "single, individual"
can be hypothesised for it. I wouldn't exclude a connection with
deictic *ei- 'this', since words meaning "one" tend to inhabit the
buffer zone between pronouns and adjectives.

Interesting. In Dravidian, on-r-u 'one' becomes a colloquial
retroflex on.n.u (Tamil), ondu (Kannada).

The pronouns to designate a person end in -n [e.g., avan-, 'he'
(Tamil), avanu (Kannada)] and en- 'mine' (Tamil), nanna (Kannada);
i_ 'this' (Telugu. Kannada), inda (Tamil); iska_ 'his', iski_ 'hers'
(Hindi).