>A good idea, I think, especially in connecting the nominal
accusative with personal pronominal one...
>But note that the origin of
the suffix is not necessarily from a relative (or interrogative?) pronoun. A
better candidate would be the oblique stem of a demonstrative. It is possible to
reconstruct deictic stems *wo and *mo in PIE
Can you expand on
that? Where do we find *mo or *wo in
IE?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
The pronominal stem *wo is well-attested in
Slavic: Serbian e-vo "this" (cf. e-no "that"), Macedonian
-va (an enclitic article) etc. Surely it is found also in Tocharian, and perhaps
somewhere else. There are fewer traces of demonstrative *mo, but they exist in
Anatolian (Lycian me), Indo-Aryan (as long as I know, only in Singhalese) and
perhaps in Celtic. Although none of known
IE languages demonstrates their suppletive opposition, its existence is quite
probable for some early stage, because it may belong to the same suppletive
system that incluedes personal 1Sg *we : *me-, 2Sg *se : *te- and demonstrative
*so : *to-. Note that the 2rd person deixis is shown not only in the personal
*se : *te-, but also in the demonstrative *so : *to- (cf. Lat. is-te) being an
ablaut-form of the former, and analogeously the demonstrative *wo : mo- must be
an ablaut-form of the personal *we : me-. At last, a very good Nostratic
similarity is found in Turkic, where (e.g., in Kazakh, but also in many other
languages) a demonstrative bu "this" forms its oblique cases with a
stem mu- (gen. mu-nyng, dat. mu-ghan, acc. mu-ny
etc.).