Re: [tied] Re: Pronouns again

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:36:48 -0000, "tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>Bomhard (in Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence) has
>Chukchi-Kamchatkan
>xxx sng. plur.
>1st G&-m mu-ri
>2nd G&-t tu-ri
>
>1st sg. from 'aku' and 'man' again, almost like Skt aham, or,
>reversely Germanic 'mik'.

What _are_ you talking about? The 1st sg. is -m, 2sg. -t, with plural
forms mu-, tu- (quite in line with the Nostratic or "MiTi-an"
pattern). In the singular, the (possessive) endings have been added
to a "pronoun base" G&- < *kV- or *tkV- (cf. Aleut t&-ng, tx&-n, with
*-k and *-t added to a pronoun base *t-/*tk-).

>If 'aku' meant only "spirit" or "self" or
>the like and originally had nothing paticularly 1st sg. about it,
>might it not be responsible for the -k of 'mi-k', 'Ti-k' etc of
>Germanic?

That's simply the emphatic particle *-g(e) added to the personal
pronoun, as in Hittite u-k, ammu-k, zi-k, tu-k, or Greek ego:-ge,
eme-ge, etc.

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