/m/ in 1st Person Pronouns

[Robert Orr]

Borrowing of pronouns is rare, but NOT impossible:

1) R.M.W Dixon mentions an instance of an Australian aboriginal language
where the Englsih first person pronoun has been borrowed for reasons of taboo.
(Languages of Australia, 1980)

2) Eric Hamp has an intriguing suggestion for OCS azu.  (IJSLP 1983).

3) And cf. the Muppets.  Miss Piggy would often use "moi" as the first
person singular pronoun while purportedly speaking English.

Robert Orr