Torsten:
>And how would you assess an attempt to relate it to Canadian Inuit,
>prof. Gordon?
Prof. Gordon, eh? Anyways, I think you're refering to the "relationship"
of IE *ego: to Inuktitut /uvanga/ that I brought up earlier. The
connection was only semantic. I didn't mean that these two forms are
actually related. Simply that both 1ps pronouns, /uvanga/ and *ego:,
yield the same sort of literal translation, "My being here", and that
they are pieced together in a similar manner (/uva-/ "here" + /-nga/ "I"
versus *e(-ge) "here" + *-o: "I").
In the end, though, the two pronouns formed seperately.
- gLeN
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