Re: [tied] The 1ps pronoun *ego:... or is it *eg?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer@...>
wrote:

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>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
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> > [Glen]
> > >What on earth does *eg come from, by the way? Certainly not from

*e-ge,

> > >an emphatic form of *e "here" since we _still_ have to conclude

that

> > >the word has eroded from *e-ge to *eg. And perhaps I'm mistaken,
> > >but I recall no language that has come to use "here" as a

reference

> > >to the 1ps, even though the semantics might seem vaguely

possible.

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>
> > [Miguel]
> > Japanese <anata> "on that (other) side" -> "you".
> > Korean <i mom.i> "this body (this)" -> "I".
>
> And American journalist style <this reporter> "I".
>
> Jens

But all these forms contain substantives, rather than a mere 'here'.

Richard.