Re: [tied] Old Bulgarian izU

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 8205
Date: 2001-07-31

Neither do I. There are enough Slavic verbs like those below for the pattern to be quite clear:
 
1sg.       Inf.       Iterat.
 
*mIr-o~    *mer-ti    *mir-ati    'die'
*dIr-o~    *der-ti    *dir-ati    'tear'
*z^Im-o~   *z^e~-ti   *z^im-ati   'squeeze'
*Im-o~     *e~-ti     *im-ati     'take'
 
Here, only the infinitive *(j)e~ti shows the original vocalism (*em-); *Im- contains a secondary (Balto-Slavic) reduced grade (*Im- < *im-, cf. Lith. imu, imti), and the iterative the legthened variant thereof (*im- < *i:m-). *Im- is not a development of PIE *em- but a new form in a thoroughly restructured paradigm.
 
Piotr
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Sergejus Tarasovas
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Old Bulgarian izU

--- In cybalist@......, "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@......> wrote:
> Some authors state that Proto-Slavic *I- could in some cases continue
> PIE *e- (word-initially). I'll try provide some details this evening.

Oleg Trubachev defends this point of view giving Proto-Slavic *jImo, 'take':  Latin emo: 'buy < take' as an exmple (quite ambiguous, IMHO; I can't imagine how a linguist of his class could have come to that).