From: tgpedersen
Message: 19220
Date: 2003-02-25
>And how would you assess an attempt to relate it to Canadian Inuit,
> Torsten:
> >Simply is it? And where does that particle come from? _That_'s
> >what I'm talking about.
>
> The particle *ge (or *g^e for the palatal impaired) simply
> wouldn't come from a pronoun. It's an emphatic particle. It
> marks emphasis. It would appear *e- in *ego: is the pronoun...
> but it is for the third person. We've talked about *ego:
> before and it appears (at least to me) to translate literally
> as "my being here". It would have been adopted recently in IE
> (that is to say, not long before IE split up into various
> dialects). Any attempt at relating it to Austronesian in this
> day and age is borderline psychotic.
>
>
> - gLeN