Re: [tied] Re: Questions about Jasanoff

On Mon, 03 May 2004 12:04:50 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> >> On p. 32, Jasanoff says that the 1pl. pf. ending is -ma:
>> >> (more often than -ma) in the Rgve:da. How come -ma: isn't
>> >> mentioned in Macdonell?
>
>> >It is mentioned in a short paragraph in the Vedic Grammar (§68).
>>
>> Macdonell's Vedic Grammar? In my copy (Motilal Banarsidass
>> Publishers, Delhi, 1993 (1995), 124 Rs., falling apart), §68
>> is about the sandhi of /m/.
>
>You mean Vedic Grammar´for Students. I mean the bigger book with the
>shorter title.

So what's your opinion on a PIE pf. 1pl. *-meH?

If I'm not mistaken, I've also see Rgvedic instances of
2sg.imp.middle -sva: (for -sva), but that doesn't seem to
affect the usual reconstruction *-swe (or *-swo).

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