Re: USAGE: 2nd pers. pron. for God
| From: | daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 12, 2002, 10:03 |
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Tim Talpas wrote:
> I believe this was "i" in older swedish, but it attracted
> the -n off of the 2nd plural of old(er) swedish verb forms.
Yup. This can be compared to German |Ihr| and English |ye|.
Apparently, |I| comes from analogy with |vi| 'we'. The main
form of the pronoun had the vowel |u| (cf. Gothic |jus| and,
I guess, English |you|).
||| daniel
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