Akkadian Indo-European Baltic Demonstrative Pronouns

Akkadian Indo-European Baltic Demonstrative Pronouns
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Akkadian Language
Indo-European Demonstrative Pronouns as seen in the Latvian Language
On the Origins of Inflection in Agglutination

Akkadian	Latvian	Meaning
SHA	SHA	his
SHI	SHI	her
SHU-U	SHUO	their

The above agglutinated demonstrative pronouns
explain why e.g. the Latvian term AR- ARA "plow"
as RA-ZHUO, IERA-ZHUO "cultivate"
has direct Akkadian counterparts
in Akkadian ERESHU and ARASHU "to cultivate"
and also Akkadian ARISHUTU "agriculture, tillage of the soil",
as identical to Latvian IERAZHUOTUO ("that cultivated")

In Latvian the demonstrative pronouns
are declined as follows for the locative case:
(note: diacritical Latvian s is written here as sh)
showing great similarity to Akkadian word endings.

Masculine

Feminine

singular	plural	singular	plural
SHAI	SHAIS	SHAI	SHAIS
SHINI	SHINIS	SHINI	SHINIS
SHAJA	SHAJOS	SHAJA	SHAJAS

The above is interesting for Franz Bopp's
and von Schloezer's view
that the Indo-European inflected endings
can be traced to the
agglutinative affixation of pronouns,
whence, in Latvian the endings SHANA, SHANU

These endings are agglutinated to form nouns
meaning the "act" of doing or being someting,
e.g. Latvian
EST "to eat" but ESHANA ("the act of eating"),
TE IR LABA DZIVOSHANA ("it is a good life here")
SAKSHANU or SAKSHANA (" the act of beginning")
SAPRASHANU SAPRASHANA ("understanding")
PAPLASHINASHANA ("the act of widening, spreading").

Similar endings are found in Sumerian and Akkadian texts.

Akkadian and Indo-European
Inflection from Pronouns?
Below are Declensions
of the demonstrative pronouns in Latvian for
"this" = Latvian SHIS (short i) and
"these" = Latvian SHIS (long i)

Masculine

Feminine

Case	singular	plural	singular	plural
N.	SHIS	SHIE	SHI	SHIS
G.	SHI, SHA	SHUO	SHIS, SHAS	SHUO
D.	SHIM	SHIEM	SHAI	SHIM
A.	SHUO	SHUOS	SHUO	SHIS
Instr.	ar SHUO	ar SHIEM	ar SHUO	ar SHIM

If we now compare these demonstrative pronouns
to Latvian inflected endings, we find many correspondences
Latvian LUK-, meaning to look, to examine
ES LUKOSOS, TU LUKOSIES, MES LUKOSIMIES
(I, You, We shall look)
Latvian LIK- meaning to put, place, LAY down
ES LIKSU (i.e. LIKSHU), TU LIKSI, MES LIKSIM
(I, You, We shall put, place)

Similar are the agglutinated endings of the
Latvian emphatic pronoun PATS, PATI ("the self")

Masculine

Feminine

Case	singular	plural	singular	plural
N.	PATS	PASHI	PATI	PASHAS
G.	PASHA	PASHU	PASHAS	PASHU
D.	PASHAM	PASHIEM	PASHAI	PASHAM
A.	PASHU	PASHUS	PASHU	PASHAS
Instr.	ar PASHU	ar PASHIEM	ar PASHU	ar PASHAM
Loc.	PASA	PASOS	PASA	PASAS

There is no doubt in the above example about the agglutination
of the demonstrative pronouns to form new words.

We find similar developments for Latvian
TAS ("that") and TIE ("those, they")

If we combine the demonstrative pronouns here with the
Latvian word MAN meaning "mine" we get, e.g. MAN-TA,
MAN-TAS meaning property or "mine that", i.e. MAN
plus the demonstrative pronoun, whence MANTAM,
dative property i.e. of property, as a combination of MAN
"mine" and TAM "dative demonstrative pronoun, or
plural TIEM found in English as THEM, German DEM".

This view also explains irregularities which derive from synthetic adding
of one-syllable words which were NOT pronouns, e.g. Latvian MANTOT
("to inherit, get property") as a combination of MAN "mine" and DOT
"to give", i.e. "give to me", found then with the demonstrative pronoun
at the end in MANTOSHANA (MAN-DUO-SHANA)
"the act of inheriting" literally "me give it").

This view is substantiated by Latvian AIZDOT ("to lend", literally "out give")
or AIZDOSANA (AIZ-DUO-SHANA"lending") about which there is no
dispute that this is a combination of the prefix AIZ "out" and DOT "to give".

Hence, all accepted notions about the origin of inflection
in Indo-European are incorrect as are the myriad of false
etymologies based on the erroneous Indo-European roots
constructed on the basis of such foolish fallacies.

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