Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> Piotr's idea to explain *k^red- as a locative of full-grade *k^erd-

and

> zero-grade *k^Rd- is an excellent solution to the form.

This 'excelent' idea needs to be aware that there are No Locative
Compounds in dHeh1-

(from here the logical question why mn.s-dhe'h1 semantism wasn't
constructed based on a locative too (and in fact no other dheh1-
construction))

> 1. Why you don't ask him directly if k^red-dHeh1 is a noun like

*mn.s-

> dHeh1 or not?

It was a rethorical question Patrick: viewing that you didn't trust
anything that I told you.

> If *bh&i- can result in Lithuanian <bai->, fine.
>
> But if it cannot, then reduced grade *bhoi- from *bho:i- will also

work.

> Patrick

I don't understand your efforts to derive & derived again ...

The point was if *bHoih- in baidyti is a Noun => It isn't.

Is a secondary o-grade of the verbal root *bHehi-
*bHehi- > *bHhi- (unstable) > [laryngeal-metathesis]

> *bHih- > *bHeih- *bHoih-

bHehi- root is a *CeHR- root

Marius