Re: wolf and lamb :: perfect of verb starting with vowel

From: MCLSSAA2@...
Message: 7155
Date: 2001-04-19

--- In cybalist@..., MCLSSAA2@... wrote:
> Greek perfects such as ele:lutha (I have gone) from e:luthon (I
> went), elthei^n (to go (momentary)), ...

This might also explain a feature of the Greek verb "hie:mi" = "I
send". Ionic with its habit of analogical levelling has "hie:mi". But
Attic, which keeps more old irregularities, has "hi:e:mi" with a long
reduplication vowel. If root {!ey} = "go", an extended form {!eye!}
might be causative = "send"; *!yi!ye!mi becomes Greek "hi:e:mi".