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PIE's I pronoun[edit]

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? Brandmeister^talk 11:08, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

And according to wiktionary, for some reason there were at least two forms for "my" - *méynos and *móyos. Brandmeister^talk 11:30, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]