Pronouns: follow up

[Wolfgang Schulze]

Dear Florian,
just two additional remarks:
1. It is rather likely that the Nakh (Chechen/Ingush/Bats) first plural 
inclusive *vay (or *way) has been borrowed from an Indoeuropean source, 
compare IE *wei 'we' (sometimes put in oppositon to *no:s/nos etc. thus 
distinguishing an inclusive from an exclusive).

2. In Botlikh (Buykhe dialect; Awaro-Andian, East Caucasian), we have a 
first singular absolutive den(i) that contrasts with an ergative is^kur. 
This forms seems to have replaced an ergative *din (or, maybe, *den-di). 
The etymology of is^kur is obscure. Its shape has a look-alike in Udi 
(Nizh) dialect) is^q'ar 'man', but the sound correspondences are far 
from being clear (note that Udi is an Eastern Samur language of the 
Lezgian group. So what we need is first to reconstruct *is^kur for the 
Andian or Awaro-Andian(-Tsezian) level before comparing it with the 
proto-Lezgian of Udi is^q'ar ). Nevertheless, it may well be that 
Botlikh is^kur originates from a noun denoting 'man'.

Reference: Schulze; Wolfgang 1999. The diachrony of personal pronouns in 
East Caucasian. H. van den Berg (ed.). /Studies in Caucasian 
Linguistics/. Leiden (CNWS 78):95-111 [a summary of chapter 2 of my book 
manuscript 'Personalität in den Ostkaukasischen Sprachen'  (I can send 
you a PDF version of this chapter, in case you want it..)....]

Very best wishes,
Wolfgang
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