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

>
> BTW, the idiomatic
>
> _(Jetzt mal/Nun mal/Nu' pack doch mal/Gib mal) Butter bei die

Fische!_

>
> which means "tell the truth! (syn.: "rede Klartext!"; "sage die
> Wahrheit"; "Tacheles reden")
>
> <Butter bei *die* Fische> (instead of the correct *der* after bei,
> which is always followed by a dative) is colloquial and quite

known

> throughout in all german dialectal regions. (I don't know, in

which

> region, it has been "coined".)

Erh, do you mean 'bei *den* Fischen'? I haven't heard of a
f.sg. 'die Fische'. But I'm not a native speaker.


Torsten