Re: [tied] Verb extensions

>The high frequency of the *-dH- "extension" (also in
>environments where we would not expect to find a voiced
>aspirated stop, i.e. in roots beginning with a voiceless
>stop) may indicate an early type of compound with *dHeh1- 'put down,
>place'. An original compound like *CeR-dHeh1-/*CeR-dHh1- might easily have
>been reanalysed
>as *CeRdH-.

I don't have any issues with *-dH- (as opposed to *-d-).
My idea is that it does indeed derive from *-dHeh- but
when zero-grading came into swing in the late Mid IE
period due to a strong stress accent, *-dHeh- became
*-dHh- with a syllabic *-h-. Syllabic *-h- was then
voiced to *-e-, particularly when sandwiched between
consonants.


- gLeN


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