Re: [tied] On do/tun

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:26:10 -0000, "P&G" <petegray@...>
wrote:

>> Can anyone help me out in finding about the remote origins of the
>> english/german verbs do/tun?.
>
>It's a very wide-spread Indo-European root, *dheh1. It appears with
>reduplication in Sanskrit (dadha:mi) and Greek (tithe:mi) and in both
>languages also in forms without the reduplication. In Latin the initial
>#dh- appears by a regular sound change as an f-, so the root is hidden in
>the word facio (no firm explanation for the -c-) and it also appears in
>compounds as -do, as in credo, abdo, condo, perdo, but there could well be
>contamination from the "give" root *deh3.
>
>It is also attested in Armenian, Phrygian, Messapic, OCS, Hittite,
>Tocharian and Lycian
>
>It is very productive, with various noun and adjective forms.
>
>Hope that gives you enough information.

That explains most of it, except the vocalism in Germanic (why *-o: or
*-a: instead of *e:?). Unfortunately, I don't know. Shame on me. So
why?


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