Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

>> 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.

> You mean there is no causative
> ending with -ty'-(ti) ?

If by -t- of -tý- you mean some kind of suffix (on the synchronic
level), then no. If the last consonant of the root -- why not?
<vartýti> (<vart-ý-ti>) etc.

Sergei

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Thank you

I was wondering if baidy'-ti
could not be from
boi-?t- > boi-d-
(preglottalized > voiced)
but this idea is apparently
impossible for morphological
reasons
so the -d- is either *-d- or *-dh-
It's not a phonotactic -d- < *?-t

Arnaud

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