Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 54545
Date: 2008-03-03

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

> is it possible to regard <baidý-> as deriving from *bhoi-dhé:(H)- ?

In phonetical terms, it would be completely irregular, if derived
*directly* from *bHoidHéh- (one would expect +<baidé:ti>). Of course
one cannot exclude recycling of the original form into a productive
type of causatives in -(d)ýti.

Sergei