Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 25951
Date: 2003-09-22

20-09-03 01:31, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> 1.2. Evolution /*e/ > /e/
> If verbs are prefixed and extended in PIE causative –eyo (in Albanian
> usualy –enyo), than we have /*e/ > /e/: *n-degW-eyo > ndez `to
> light, to kindle, to fire' (cf. above *degW- > djeg `to burn'), *n-
> gWher-enyo > nxej `to heat, to warm up' (cf. above *gWher- > zjarr).

This is incorrect. PIE causatives were o-grade forms, so in this case we
have *-dHogWH-eje- (sic!) > *-dadZi- > -dez (with i-umlaut), and
likewise in other such formations.

Piotr