On 2008-11-09 21:19, tgpedersen wrote:
> It just occurred to me that 'take' is a class VI verb, so I will now
> put it in the 'loans from Venetic' box,
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/61076
> <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/61076>
> if that's okay with everybody.
> Any objections? No, I didn't think so.
Poor Venetic-speakers, all of them dead and unable to protest. So far
you haven't shown that _any_ Class VI verb occurs in Venetic, but you
have no qualms about making them _all_ Venetic. Phenomenal cheek.
Actually, many of those verbs are easy to explain. Most obviously, those
with an initial *a- < *h2a- (*aka-, *ala-, *ana-) had preterites in *o:-
for the very simple reason that their past tense reflects the original
perfect stem:
*h2a-h2ol-, *h2a-h2l- > *o:l-, etc.
As regards the rest, various ideas have been pur forward by Jasanoff,
Ringe and others. If you choose to ignore all of them in favour of a
just-so story about a "non-ablauting a-language", be my guest, but don't
expect to be taken seriously.
Piotr