The wolf and the lamb

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 7190
Date: 2001-04-22

>With a medial *-e- you'd get a different mood (subjunctive). The 3sg
> >indicative is *ed-ti [etsti] in the present tense (ignoring the >initial
>*h1-), *ed-t [etst] in the preterite. The perfect seems to >have been
>*e:d-e.

Okay, cool, I was right then... *e:de (and I think I like *ett better). Now,
*e:de is the perfect of *ett, then is *e:se the perfect of *est. If so *es-
may have more accurately meant "to remain", no? :)

- gLeN

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