Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 54614
Date: 2008-03-04

On 2008-03-04 00:01, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> And you refuted any possibility to link the Germanic dental-
> preterite with the PIE dHeh1- verbal-formations?
>
> Did you change your mind?

No, not about the Germanic preterite. It has nothing to do with
*k^red-dHeh1- or with the PIE "dH-presents", in my opinion. But as
regards the *-dH- "extension" in general, cf. e.g.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/53700

Piotr

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What about -dh- being a suffix
expressing "continuous process"
like in
(s)reu-dh-anos > Rodanos > Rhône ?

A.

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