Re: Tour (5)

--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> INDO-EUROPEAN
>
> A short summary of my views on PIE. I have given more elaborate

accounts

> elsewhere.
>
>
> PIE PERSONAL PRONOUN
>
> The 1st person sg. pronoun has a suppletive form in the

nominative. The

> attested forms can be derived from *h1eg^ (Gmc *ik, Slav. azU; with

secondary

> devoicing Lith às^, ès^, Arm es, Av. as). Sanksrit ahám (Av. azam)

is from

> *h1eg^hom, with *g^h instead of *g^, and added *-om (which appears

in the other

> personal pronouns too). Latin and Greek have final *-o: (ego, ego:

(n)).

> Hittite has <uk>. Whatever the ultimate origin of this form, it was

created

> within IE, and is not directly comparable to other Nostratic forms.
>
> The accusative goes back to *mé(:) (Skt. má:-m, Grk. e-mé, Lat.

me:, Alb. më,

> Gmc *mi-k Arm. i-s), with enclitic is *me(:) (Skt./Av. ma:, Grk me,

TochB. -ñ)

> or perhaps *mu (Hitt. -mu).
>
> The genitive is *méne(:) (Av. m&:na:, OCS mene) or *méme (Skt.

máma).

>
> The dative is *meg^hyo (Skt. máhya(m), Lat. mihi:, Arm. inz), with

enclitic

> *moi (Skt. me:, Av. mai, OCS mi, Grk. moi).
>

Just a general question (I could ask a specific one about 1.sg.):

Do you think there exist cases where pronouns or verbal endings were
loaned (except 'they', of course), or is it all inheritance?

Torsten