Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-03-04 11:53, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > -to was a sufix already in PIE times
> > -dHeh1 was a still a verb in PIE times
>
> But the replacement of, say, *logHejet by *logHitom dHidHeh1t >
> *laGiDa(N) DiDe:(D) > *laGiDe: > OE legde > Mod.E laid did not take
> place in PIE times.
>
> Piotr
>

There was 'no replacement', there was a new verbal aspect that 'come-
in' having a so powerfull force of expression that it arrived finally
to obsolete other verbal aspects.

There are sure traces of forms that co-existed for a long periods
and the common sense and similar facts told us that this was the
case.


Marius