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

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:59:32 -0500, "Brian M. Scott"
<BMScott@...> wrote:

>At 7:50:12 PM on Saturday, March 1, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
>
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>> <miguelc@...> wrote:
>
>>> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:52:29 -0000, "tgpedersen"
>>> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
>>>>Why PIE e: > Gothic a?
>
>>> Because that's what it gives. What else could it give?
>>> Acute long vowels are shortened in Gothic, so the choices
>>> are limited to -a, -i or -u. We have -o: > -a, -e: > -a,
>>> -i: > -i (I'm not aware of any cases of -u:, but if there
>>> were, I suppose -u: > -u).
>
>> I read your answer as saying that we have no other case of
>> PIE *-e: > Gothic -a ?
>
>Goth. <þamma> 'this, that' (dat.) (PIE *tosme:)
>Goth. <hvamma> 'whom, what' (dat.) (PIE *kWosme:)
>

Right. Old instrumentals.

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