Re: German "kein" "no, no one"

From: tarasovass
Message: 71522
Date: 2013-11-07

---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <grzegorj2000@...> wrote:

>>The second part is the IE particle *ge. It can be seen, among others, in Germanic *mi-k (accusative "me"). It yielded *z^e in Slavic regularly.

It seems it's not so easy to choose between deriving PSl. *z^e from PIE *ge (thus with Gk. ge 'at least, only, indeed', Goth. -k in mik 'me', auk 'because, but') and deriving it from PIE *gWHe (with Gk. -tHe in eĆ­tHe 'if only', OInd. ha, gha 'indeed').