Re: [tied] i-verbs in Baltic and Slavic

On Tue, 23 May 2006 08:06:03 +0100, P&G
<G&P@...> wrote:

>> an old idea of mine, that the
>> causative-iterative is an old compund of verbal root
>> (showing o-grade with "Rasmussen infix", which must have
>> some meaning) plus the verb "to make" [ = Hittite iyami,
>> iyezzi etc.] This would also explain the intercalation of
>> the preverb pV- [Hitt. piyami, piyezzi] in Vedic
>> causatives-iteratives such as dha:-páya "cause to put",
>> jña-páya "cause to know", etc.
>
>I was following you until this point - you have probably left out something
>very simple, which I should know.
>How does "verb root + *Hyeh1-" explain the insertion of Skt -pV-?
>Where does this -pV- come from?
>Or how do you propose getting Skt -pV- from *Hyeh1- ?

If the causative suffix is originally a verb (the same one
as Hittite iyami "I do, make"), then the p- is best
explained as being originally a preverb (the same one as in
Hittite p-iyami "I send").


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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