Re: PIE -*C-presents

On 2008-02-19 15:07, tgpedersen wrote:

> Or could it be the other way round, that the dental 'extension' is
> part of the original root, and the 'extension-less' side form the
> result of false division of 3sg pres. in *-ti (with various
> assimilations of the dental)?

Something similar may surely be suspected in cases like *pek^t- and
*plek(^)t-. Both roots form sigmatic aorists, and the contrast between
pres. *pek^te-ti and *pe:k^st (< *-k^t-s-t) may have led to the
misanalysis of the present as *pek^-te-ti, with the "present sufix"
*-te/o-. The evidently archaic derivative *(p)k^te:n 'comb' shows a *t
which looks like an integral part of the root.

Piotr