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Japanese etymology :

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Proto-Japanese: *si
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Meaning: thou (2d p. pron.)
Russian meaning: ты
Old Japanese: si
Comments: OJ si is not frequent and is sometimes hard to distinguish from the deictic / emphatic particle si; however, there are several text examples firmly identifying its function as a 2d p. pronoun. It is used parallelly with the far more frequent na, but never occurs in compounds or with suffixes -re or -no; it is thus probable that it originally functioned as the direct stem as opposed to na as the oblique stem in a suppletive paradigm. See more detailed discussion in Murayama 1950, Miller JOAL and Itabashi 1998 (pace the latter author, however, we must say that the coincidence of si 'thou' and si `deictic / emphatic pronoun and particle' must be just a coincidence).
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Altaic etymology :

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Proto-Altaic: *si
Nostratic: Nostratic
Meaning: thou
Russian meaning: ты
Turkic: *sẹ-
Tungus-Manchu: *si
Japanese: *si
Comments: EAS 72, АПиПЯЯ 52, 284.
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Turkic etymology :

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Proto-Turkic: *sẹ-
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Meaning: thou
Russian meaning: ты
Old Turkic: sen (Orkh., OUygh.)
Karakhanid: sen (MK)
Turkish: sen
Tatar: sin
Middle Turkic: sen (Pav. C.)
Uzbek: sen
Uighur: sän
Sary-Yughur: sen
Azerbaidzhan: sän
Turkmen: sen
Khakassian: sin
Shor: sen
Oyrat: sen
Chuvash: ezǝ
Yakut: en
Dolgan: en
Tuva: sen
Tofalar: sen
Kirghiz: sen
Kazakh: sen
Noghai: sen
Bashkir: hin
Balkar: sen
Gagauz: sän
Karaim: sɨn
Karakalpak: sen
Salar: sē(n)
Kumyk: sen
Comments: VEWT 409, EDT 831-832, Stachowski 45, ЭСТЯ 7. See ibid the reflexes of PT *siŕ 'you' (pl.).
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Tungus etymology :

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Proto-Tungus-Manchu: *si; *sū
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Meaning: 1 thou 2 you (your, yours) (pl.)
Russian meaning: 1 ты 2 вы (ваш)
Evenki: si 1, sū (su-n) 2
Even: 1, hū (hu-n) 2
Negidal: 1, sū (su-n) 2
Spoken Manchu: šī (2873) 1, sō, soń (2874) 2
Literary Manchu: si 1, suwe (suweni) 2
Ulcha: si 1, sue (sun) 2
Orok: si 1, sū (su-n) 2
Nanai: śi 1, sue (sun) 2
Oroch: si 1, su (su-n) 2
Udighe: si 1, sū (su-n) 2
Solon: š́i 1, sū (su-n) 2
Comments: ТМС 2, 72-73, 115.
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Nostratic etymology :

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Eurasiatic: *si
Meaning: 2nd person pronoun, thou
Borean: Borean
Indo-European: *-si ending of the 2d p.
Altaic: *si (pl. *sU-)
Kartvelian: *si-
Chukchee-Kamchatkan: *-šǝ
Comments: Kartv. *s- - perhaps from plural (otherwise *ś- would be expected).
References: ND 2312 *ś[ü], 2312a *ś[ü]ʔa ("assibilated variant" of *ṭü ?).
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Kartvelian etymology :

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Proto-Kartvelian: *si-
Nostratic: Nostratic
Russian meaning: ты
English meaning: thou
Megrel: si-
Svan: si
Laz: si-
Notes and references: ЭСКЯ 162-163, EWK 300.
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Chukchee-Kamchatkan etymology :

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Proto-Chukchee-Kamchatkan: *ɣǝšǝ, *ɣǝn-
Nostratic etymology: Nostratic etymology
Meaning (Rus.): ты
Proto-Chukchee-Koryak: *ɣǝš, *ɣǝn-
Proto-Itelmen: *kǝźa, *kni-
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Chukchee-Koryak etymology :

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Proto-Chukchee-Koryak: *ɣǝš, *ɣǝn(nǝ)-
Chukchee-Kamchatkan etymology: Chukchee-Kamchatkan etymology
Meaning (Rus.): личн. мест. 2sg. "ты"
Chukchee: ɣǝr, ɣǝt, ɣǝnǝ́-kǝ loc., ɣǝn- (I)
Koryak: ɣǝj, ɣǝ̀cci, ɣǝnǝk loc., ɣǝn- (I)
Palan: ɣǝ̀tte, ɣǝnǝ̀-kki loc., ɣǝn- (I)
Alutor: ɣǝ̀ttǝ, ɣǝn-
Comments: Аналогично местоимению первого лица *ɣǝm в кор. склонении ожидается косвенная основа *ɣǝnnǝ-, возможно она и из *ɣǝšnǝ-. В отличие от паланского, где loc. ɣǝnǝkki < "ɣnǝk, кор. ɣǝnǝk отражает невыпадающий первый -ǝ-, а это по фонотактике возможно только перед сочетанием.
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Itelmen etymology :

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Proto-Itelmen: *kǝźa, *kni-
Chukchee-Kamchatkan etymology: Chukchee-Kamchatkan etymology
Meaning (Rus.): мест. личн. 2sg ты
Itelmen: kǝ̆zza (kn-in poss.) 1, kǝ̆-lwin 2
Itelmen meaning: ты 1, ты сам 2
West Itelmen: kiza (kin-ɨn poss.)
West Itelmen meaning: tu
West Itelmen meaning (Polish): ty
South Itelmen: kiz (kĺa-sič poss., si acc., ki-jank adr.)
South Itelmen meaning (Latin): tu (tuus; te; ad vos, vobis)
South Itelmen meaning (Polish): ty (twój; ciebię, cię; do was, wam)
Number in Volodin 1976: 169, 175
Stebnitsky reference: 88, 92
Comments: В юж. камч. в случае, если перепутаны "и" = [i] и "н" = [n], может быть адресатив kń-ank.
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Long-range etymologies :

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Borean (approx.) : CV
Meaning : you
Eurasiatic : *si
Sino-Caucasian : NC *źwV 'you' (pl.)
Austric : PAN *iSu 'thou', *Suʔu '2d sg. agent / possessor'
Amerind (misc.) : *Ci 'thou, you' (R 755 *ti) [+ K]
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