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Re: demuan 101: pronouns

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Saturday, April 10, 1999, 13:53
Tom Wier wrote:

> Fabian wrote: > > > I king > > thou ling > > he wing (also she) > > we sking > > you sling > > they xwing > > it tam > > them stam > > Why do articles change number according to ablaut variations > (i.e., that between i and e) plus <s-> or <x->, but pronouns don't? Th=
at is,
> why not <king> for "I" and <skeng> for "we"?
It seams to be that the ablaut i->e.r marks the plural of what the word determines: I: king we: sking my: kinde our: skinde And the number of the person is the prefixing s/x-. -- o_o =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3Dw=3D=3D=3Dw=3D=3D=3D=3D####### Chlewey Thompin ## #### http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/ ## ## ## ------------------------------------------------##-## ## ### - =BFPor qu=E9 no? - No tiene sentido. - =BFQu=E9 sentido? El sentido no existe. - El sentido inverso. O el sentido norte. El sentido com=FAn, tal ve= z. O sin sentido, como aqu=ED. (-- Graeville 2)