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

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 42941
Date: 2006-01-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > 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?

Torsten made this point way back at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/17214 and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/17923 .

Richard.