Re: *m for 1st & *t for 2nd person in PIE and Proto-Uralic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Finno-Ugric 1st and 2nd person suffixes seem to match. In the 3rd
> person IE uses -t, -nt, suspected by some to be identical the
> participle suffixes -t-, -nt-, whereas Finnish uses what was once a
> participle in -p-. Tocharian A has 3rd person -m, perhaps from the
> same suffix? There are supposedly loans from Tocharian in Finno-
> Ugric.

Do you mean Tochaian B -m. (anusva:ra)? That is always from *-n-,
never *-m-. The IE background is rather securely *nu 'now'. The
corresponding A form ends in -s. , explained by Jasanoff as the direct
reflex of IE *-ti.

Jens