Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 54232
Date: 2008-02-27

----- Original Message -----
From: "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit


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

<snip>

1-3 was coagulated Only in Germanic but the Dental Preterite (together
with other Germanic Constructions) has appeared based on some
previous PIE periphrastic verbal constructions

(together with some other verbal constructions )

Marius

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Marius, should we keep in mind that ^kred-dhe:- is _not_ a periphrastic
verbal construction but a simple compound?

Patrick