Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ты-вы: etymology ?

On Sep 26, 11:18 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I ask you as everyone else in sci.lang: did you ever
wonder why French and English have a double way
of saying 'ego', je moi, I me. Nobody gave me an
answer, not even Peter T. Daniels

Why should I? I'm not an Indo-Europeanist. You can look in Watkins's
dictionary s.vv. eg and me-1, or your favorite textbook (Beekes,
Fortson, Georgiev, Meillet, Szemerenyi, etc.) under "Pronouns," as
easily as I can.

BTW, are you implying that Latin _doesn't_ have such a "double way"?
Did your monk who took the little boy into his cell never teach you
the paradigm ego, mei, mihi, me, me?


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