*nekWt-

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 1940
Date: 2000-03-24

Piotr:
>etc., etc., etc. (also *nekWt- 'get dark' supported directly by >Hittite
>and indirectly by the pan-IE word for 'night').

Actually, in hindsight... what? Are you sure that *nekWt- isn't really the
making of a verb from a noun *nekWts? One might offer a hypothesis that
*nekWts derives from a "nonthematic" Steppe form *nukWit, derived from a
verb *nukW- with *-it (eventually to be the
s-aorist in IE comparable to Uralic *-ta).

So *nukWit then would have developed into IndoTyrrhenian *nekWec (accusative
*nekWtem, genitive *nekWcese) - don't mind the weird *c/*t alternation, a
side-effect of Steppe *-t. Eventually, it would produce IndoAnatolian
*nekWt-s (*nekWtm). A verb would then develop simply by marking *nekWt- with
verbal affixes. Tada! Perhaps this is another source of some of these verbs.
Just an idle thought, though. A source of future discussion.

- gLeN

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