Notes on the Indo-European kui- and kuo-pronouns

Abstract

Some attempts to answer the question as to the historical relations of the indefinite and interrogative functions of the Indo-European ku-pronouns are reviewed and criticized. The well-known practice of considering the indefinites of the types Goth. hazuh, AInd. kacid derivatives of the interrogative is open to dispute. The identity, in Indo-European, of the interrogatives and the indefinites has, even in particulars concerning their functions, many non-I.E. parallels. Some suggestions are given in connection with the explication of Gr. öστιç. A.Ind. yah kaca, kacid, etc. Supplementary observations are made on the theories of the relative use of these pronominal stems.