not altogether, it would seem. The table that is partially depicted in the article is from Wikipedia; there, it says:
PIE had personal pronouns in the first and second person, but not the third person, where demonstratives were used instead. They were inflected for case and number (singular, dual, and plural), but not for gender. The personal pronouns had their own unique forms and endings, and some had two distinct stems; this is most obvious in the first person singular, where the two stems are still preserved, as for instance in English I and me.
That might have been the part that inspired the author's piece.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 17.4 ms ] threadPIE had personal pronouns in the first and second person, but not the third person, where demonstratives were used instead. They were inflected for case and number (singular, dual, and plural), but not for gender. The personal pronouns had their own unique forms and endings, and some had two distinct stems; this is most obvious in the first person singular, where the two stems are still preserved, as for instance in English I and me.
That might have been the part that inspired the author's piece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_pronouns#P...