Re[2]: [tied] PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

At 7:00:25 PM on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>> On 2008-02-26 23:07, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

>>> The others two reflects only -ai not -dai => but you
>>> have put in doubt the correct recognition of -ai NOT of
>>> -d-

>> A misunderstanding on your part. Koretland claims that
>> there are three examples of weak preterites in <-ai>. Of
>> course the actual ending is <-dai>. That's how a
>> preterite must end in order to be weak.

> No there is no misunderstanding on my part. I know what
> Kortlandt claimed. I said that: that /ai/ is /ai/ (doesn't
> matter what kind of endings we have, for preterite or for
> something else). I said that we are talking first of all
> about Letters there: You have put in doubt the corectness
> of -ai on that inscriptions

No, he has not. You simply don't understand what he's
saying.

> and I came back with other references that's all...

Which are irrelevant, since no one is disputing the
<talgidai> reading.

Brian