Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families) are loans

From: tgpedersen
Message: 42925
Date: 2006-01-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:
>
> It seems entirely plausible that Nostratic *m and *n have survived
> with little or no change. They seem to be fairly stable phonemes
> across all language families. But lets try to stay away from the
> Nostratic hypothesis here.
>

OK then. For 'inherited from Nostratic', read 'inherited'. The thing
that interested me was whether an 'agricultural package' in PIE was
loaned or inherited, and whether that package included the pronouns.


Torsten