Re: [tied] Qualitative ablaut and prefixing

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 04:24:00 +0000, "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>>Another example of prefixation in PIE are the preverbs (such as the p- of
>>Hitt. p-iyati).
>
>Wrong. This is an example of prefixation in _HITTITE_.
>Hittite is not PIE itself. It is a language heavily
>affected by Hattic substrate. Hattic, as we know, is
>a non-IE language replete with prefixation. Is there
>a **p- in IE? I don't think so.

Of course there is (*pe:-/po-, actually). Not only does it occur in
Luwian, where there is no Hattic substrate (e.g. Hitt. pai-/pija-,
Luw. pija- "to give" (< *pe-ai-), cf. Toch. ai- "to give"), it also is
the imperative prefix (p-) in Tocharian, and a preverb/aspect marker
in Slavic (po-). As far as I know, *all* Indo-European languages use
preverbs.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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