*-m-, *-men-

More Pulleyblank:

"
Chinese quan EMC kHwen', Tib. khyi, Burm khwè....Benedict explains
the final *-n of the Chinese form as a 'collective' suffix, also
found in min EMC mjin 'people'.
"

That must be the suffix of the Chinese personal pronouns
wo "I", wo men "we"
ni "thou", ni men "ye"
ta "he", ta men "they"

and if the PIE pronouns are ultimately loaned, we have an
explanation for the PIE 1pl. *-me(n)- (and for 1sg.?)


And perhaps the -n of the n-stem PIE *kwo(n)- "dog" has a new
explanation? Perhaps it never had -n in nom.sg.?


Torsten