Re: [tied] "-L" past participle

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 04:02:40, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Piotr:
>>Greek has isolated and rather irregular deverbal adjectives in -(e)lo-,
>>e.g.
>>tupHlos 'blind', deilos 'timid' < *dwei-elo-, etc. The formation is no
>>doubt
>>IE, but its grammatical functionalisation took place only on a
>>branch-specific
>>basis.
>
>Hmm. I wonder if this *-(e)lo- isn't just a thematized extension of *-el and
>ultimately derived from a "dative" case suffix that has been mostly lost in
>IndoEuropean... (cf. Etruscan genitive and Lycian dative)

That's the _Lydian_ gen./dat. in -L (cf. also the Hitt. pronominal
gen. in -el). The extension of the ending to the dative in Lydian is
secondary. It's an adjectival/genitival suffix.


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