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

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

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> --- 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.

I would think that *h1eg'(H)om would more likely be a borrowed pronoun
(perhaps also *yuHs). Don't the Austronesians have a pronoun something
like *aku?