--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> --- 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?

Well, no answer is also an answer.

Torsten