Perfect of verb starting with vowel

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 7164
Date: 2001-04-19

Piotr explains in yummy detail about the perfect:
>The problem is that Attic reduplication is only found in Greek. If >any
>pattern recurs in more than one branches, it's the long-vowelled >perfect
>*e:d- (Lat. e:di:, OE ae:t). [...] We also have "comparative >IE" *a:g^-
>[...] It seems that perfect formation for such roots was a >messy affair
>from very early on.

Well, gee, I guess we won't be needing *H1- then >:) Therefore, I think the
obsession to make *H1 a valid consonant might be a little overboard here,
don't you think?

- gLeN

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