Re: Germanic weak verbs and **do**

Piotr:

> BTW, compounding dheH with a noun to form a verb was already PIE
> >practice:
>
> *kred-dheH- 'entrust, commit, place as a loan' (Latin cre:do, >OIrish
>cretim, Skt. srad-dha:-)
> Skt. na:man-dha:- 'give a name, call'

Erh, beg pardon, sir. I'm not so sure about the use of these examples. The
first element of these phrases are not verbs. We're witnessing the
contraction of common IE phrases into single words, not a use of *dheh as a
modal affix. These are different things. On the other hand, I honestly don't
know yet the origin of *-dh-...

- gLeN



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