Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2022 October 9

= October 9 =

PIE's I pronoun
Is it known why PIE used suppletion in the declensions of the 1st-person pronoun *éǵh₂, like *méynos, móyos and *h₁me-, rather than using the same starting letter "e" for recognizability and simplicity? Brandmeistertalk  11:08, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Or m-. It's so long way back, that there are only theories, I guess. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 11:20, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * And according to wiktionary, for some reason there were at least two forms for "my" - *méynos and *móyos. Brandmeistertalk  11:30, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, PIE had a lot of cases, which could probably get conflated, and also a bunch of suffixes and afixes. I guess that could have played a part. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 13:33, 9 October 2022 (UTC)