Me:
> Or rather, *o is (by way of Vowel Shift) from *a.
> Hence earlier *sa and *ta(t) when stressed.
Torsten:
> Aha. You explain their deviance from normal practice
> by proposing that they were always different.
> Ingenious.
Yes. I don't agree with Jens that *t becomes *s in
word-initial position, only word-final and only
during the Indo-Tyrrhenian stage. Rather, I connect
*so with Uralic's 3ps pronoun and reconstruct
Proto-Steppe *sa "the" together with a seperate
pronoun *to "that" (the medial demonstrative in
the trideictic system of *ki, *to and *o).
= gLeN
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