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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> Perhaps the nonconnectibility of *tu- with any root
suggesting 'hear' (which we might reasonably expect in the second
person as a counterpart to 'speak(er)' in the first person) suggests
an alternative explanation.
>
>
> Patrick
Or maybe not Patrick, If we will consider PIE *tuH as an Old loan
from another Language where the meaning was really 'to hear':
Look at
http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?
root=config&morpho=0&basename=\data\bush\xamet&first=361:
where you will find the Root *tu- as 'to hear'
"
Proto-!Wi : *t́u
Stems : *tu-i
Meaning : to hear
Bushman etymology :
|Xam : ttú, ttúï, tūï, ttóรค (B.); ttŭ́, ttúï̆ (Ll.)
//Ng : tu, tūi
#Khomani : tjhu (Mg.)
//Kxau : tu
Seroa : tu (Wu.)
//Xegwi (Batwa) : tūi
|Auni : tu, tūi
References : Bleek 186, 191, 204, 206, 239, 240.
"
Maybe only a coincidence but we also have more than one root
for 'you' in PIE
Marius