Re: [tied] The idea of the root *h1eg^ ("I", "to speak")

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In 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, ttóä

(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
>

By the way Patrick : Proto-Bushman 'you' is uH

Proto-Bushman : *uH

Meaning : you

Proto-Taa : *ûh

Proto-!Wi : *u

#Hoan : *u


All I can say: "strange enough" :

a) /you/ and /uH/ 'sound similar', isn't it and they have an
identical meaning

b) Also now based on this /uH/ we also can decomposed PIE *tuH in PIE
*t-uH and in the same time

c) we can unified the PIE origin of /you/ & /tu/ based on *uH

Marius


P.S. And trust me that I didn't drink anything in the last days
(maybe is the time :))