Re: Re : Question on personal inflections
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 27, 1999, 16:43 |
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 17:05:40 +0200 Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
writes:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
>> to make? My thought is that nouns replaced pronouns ("my soul" for
>"I",
>> etc.; analogous to the origin of free pronouns in W.), which =
>naturally
>> would take third person agreement, and thus first and second
>persons
>> were lost.
That's how Hebrew and Aramaic reflexive pronouns formed, as well as
(probably, i'm not sure) English's:
H _`atzmo_ (his bone) = A _nafsheih_ (his soul) = E _himself_ (him +
self).
In Rokbeigalmki the reflexive pronouns come from _ailtz_, "lifeforce".
-Stephen (Steg)
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