Re: [tied] gerundium in slavic

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

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> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
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> Subject: Re: [tied] gerundium in slavic
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>> Interesting . Are the slavic singular in this way of making
>> gerundium?
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> There are many ways of deriving action nouns from verbs in various
> branches of IE, just as there are numerous formations that evolved
> into infinitives in this or that branch. As far as I know, the
> gerunds in *-Ije are a Slavic speciality). I think the suffix is
> etymologically identical with the Slavic collective in *-Ije < *-ejom
>
> Piotr

I was wondering abozut the germanic gerundium which is "-end" "-ing" (
is there some more suffixes?) and the latin gerundium "-nd, -end" as
well as greek gerundium "-endo".It seemed to me to make a "corpus
comunus" in this point, this is why I asked about slavic way of building
it.
Since it seems we have some specialists in vedic/indic culture here, how
is the gerundial form in vedic and sanskrit and actual modern indian
languages?

alex