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GRIPLA
Daghestan. Andi is spoken in nine villages, each village showing
some dialectal peculiarities. The pronouns in eight of the villages are
as follows: lst p. sg. den, 2nd p. sg. men. But in the village of Andi
itself the pronouns are: in the speech of men din, min, but in the
speech of women den, men?
Thus in the village of Andi it is the masculine form, or better the
form used by men, which is apparently an innovation. If it is possible
to look at the Tocharian pronouns in the same way it is the mascu-
line form that should represent the innovation.
In II (1) above, it was mentioned that the honorific form could
have developed along different lines. This is also the case here, and
again one of the possibilities is borrowing.
m
In order to pursue this further it will be necessary to examine the
whole paradigm in question, viz. the three primary cases; the second-
ary cases which are formed with monofunctional suffixes do not
matter in this context. The paradigms are as follows:
West Tocharian East Tocharian
MASC. FEM.
NOM. fids nas nuk
OBL. iidé nas nuk
GEN. ni ni nöhi
The similarity of the West Tocharian and the East Tocharian mas-
cuhne paradigms is so great that it is difficult to ascribe it to pure
coincidence.8
7 1.1. Cercvadze, Andiuri ena - Andijskij jazyk, Tbilisi 1965, 346. The deve-
lopment of the pronouns in the village of Andi may be due to the interplay of
two linguistic features, together with possible concomitant social reasons. On the
one hand there is a certain fluctuation between i and e in the corresponding pro-
nouns in several related languages also spoken in the Andi Valley. And on the
other hand a distinction by class indicators between masc., fem., lifeless etc., is
made in numerous finite as well as infinite verb forms in Andi, as, e.g., in the
related and better known Avar.
8 It is, however, quite probable that ni was found in both dialects and this could
have facilitated the borrowing; cf. the occurrence of the suffixed personal pro-
noun of the lst p. sg., often in possessive function, West Tocharian -ii, East Toch-