Re: [tied] Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families) ar

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:27:36 +0000, Rob
<magwich78@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>Just out of curiosity:
>
>> That is neither easier nor correct. OE <þa:> gives ME
>> <tho:>, <the>, which regularly develops into the plural
>> definite article. The emphatic form OE <þa:s> becomes the
>> ME demonstrative <tho:s(e)> > ModE <those>.
>
>Was the -s in origin the plural ending (ModE -(e)s)?

Hardly: it's the same -s as in this, these; Du. deze; Germ.
dieser, etc.

My guess would be it's from *so, the original nominative
(m.) of the dem. pronoun, but I'd have to look it up.

>> The 3pl. personal pronoun, OE NA. <hi:e>, <he:o>, G.
>> <heora>, D. <he:om> regularly gives ME N. <hi>, <hy>, G.
>> <heore>, <here>, <hire>, <hore>, <hure>, <hare>, DA. <heom>,
>> <hem>, <hom>, <ham> in the South.
>
>Where did all of those different vowel qualities come from?

Different spellings/pronunciations in different
manuscripts/dialects.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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