On Jul 24, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Isaac Fried wrote: > What I have said is that I tend to think that corresponding to > את, אתה, אתם AT, ATAH, ATEM,
Interesting to me is how wide spread this dental form is throughout European languages: tu, toi, ta, ti, du, thou, etc.. > there was in use, in some corner of Hebrew > אך, אכה, אכם AK, AKAH, AKEM This one shows up in Bantu as 2sg affixes; accusatives ku and khu, genitives -ako, -akho > (a hint of which we find in אנוכי ANOKIY and אנחנו ANAXNU), that survived > only as a "suffix" personal pronoun (PP) to express the "genitive", > to wit, אמך IMKA = EM-AKAH, 'your mother'. > cf. Swahili MAMAKO, 'your mother' ANOKIY has a cousin as well: Swahili, -ANGU --> babangu, 'my father' and Luyia -ANGE omwanange, 'my son' > Another fossil is the אתי ATIY, instead of אני ANIY, left frozen as a > "suffix" in the > compound שברתי $ABARTIY = $ABAR-ATIY, 'I have broken'. I never thought about this one. The 1st person nominative subject prefix for the immediate future in Luyia is a nasalized derivative of *ATIY, NDA. > Isaac Fried, Boston University Jonathan Mohler Baptist Bible Graduate School Springfield, MO > On Jul 24, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Jonathan Mohler wrote: > >> I don't have a theory for how the self-standing ATAH would engender the >> suffix -KAH. >
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