Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:08:23 -0600, "Patrick Ryan"
<proto-language@...> wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <miguelc@...>
>> *dheh1i- is "to suck". The verbal root that has been
>> discussed here all along is *dheh1-. What matters in the
>> case of baidýti is what the root means in Balto-Slavic. LIV
>> gives the following Balto-Slavic meanings: "legen; hinlegen;
>> setzen; (Eier) legen; anlöten; machen; tun; sagen;
>> sprechen".
>>
>> >Perhaps Sergei will change your mind on its verbal nature?
>>
>> Sergei just confirmed my earlier guess that the formation
>> (baidýti) is denominal.
>>
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>
>I guess you do not trust Pokorny who lists *dhi- as an extended form of
>*dhe:-.

No he doesn't. He lists as one of many "Nominalbildungen"
*dh-i- (i.e. *dhh1-i-), and the forms given are: Skt.
ni-dh-í-s m. `Behälter, Schatz', sam-dh-í-s m. `Vereinigung,
Bündnis, Sandhi', Av. gao-di- `Milchbehälter'; Lit. pãdis
`der Henne unterlegtes Ei'. The -i- is not part of the
root, it is part of the i-stem nominal derivation.

>Pokorny list 'suck' as *dhe:(i)-; I guess you do not believe him on that
>either.

Yes I do, see above: *dheh1i-

>Denominal? Does that mean that the first element is nominal: *bhoi-?

The first element is the root of the noun bai~das.

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