Re: Russian names (was: Re: A perfect day...)

At 14:08 +1300 4.2.2000, andrew wrote:
>
>> But, speaking of these forms, I've noticed that many of the languages
>> have similar 2nd plural forms, for instance, Latin _vos_, Russian _vy_,
>> but then we have Anglo-Saxon _ge_, seemingly unrelated.  The first
>> person plurals also seem unrelated, _nos_ vs. _we_.  Is this connected
>> with the PIE dual/plural distinction, i.e., some descendants used the
>> dual and others the plural?
>>
>I think the nominative form of the 1st person plural was *we and the
>oblique was *nsos.  The oblique forms survive in Germanic 1st plural
>object and possessive pronouns.
>
>The rise of the 2nd plural forms in daughter languages I'm not so sure
>of now.
The Germanic and Baltic 2nd plurals in *ju-/*i- are probably cognate to the
demonstrative stem *i-/*jo- found in "yon(der)" and in the relative pronoun
of Sanskrit (yad) and Greek (hos).  Sanskrit distinguishes accented forms
in va- and yu- from enclitic nas/vas.



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