On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:30:28 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
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gpiotr@...> wrote:
>Latin o:di may be a perfect of this type, from the root *od-, with morphological lengthening rather than reduplication. But apart from e:di, e:mi, etc., quite a few Latin stems with an initial consonant also occur with a lengthened vowel (fodio : fo:di; lego : le:gi; scabo : sca:bi), and whatever their origin, neither the length nor the colour of the root vowel is of laryngeal origin.
The forms with *-e:- also occur in Germanic verbs of the structure
(C(R))eC and CER (though only in the plural, where one normally has
zero grade in the perfect). Albanian and Tocharian show the *-e:- as
well (in Albanian, /o/ < *e: has been generalized to all verbs in the
aorist < PIE perfect; in Tocharian the difference between forms with
*o and *e: (both > Toch. /e/) can only be seen by the palatalization
of the preceding consonant, and analogical processes have been at
work). It would be interesting to know whether in the Hittite
hi-past, the Ablauting forms with sg. -a-, pl. -e- ever show plene
writing in the plural (I don't think so, but I'm not sure).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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