--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>Aspirated *tH tends to replace inherited *t in several Indo-Iranian
suffixes, e.g. helping to distinguish deverbal adjectives in *-ta-
from similarly formed (and also suffix-stressed) nouns in *-tHa-:
Skt. rik-ta- 'left', rik-tHa-m 'property left to inheritors'. The
underlying morphophonological processes are not very clear (to me at
any rate).
>
Sorry for a probably dilettantic question: does that mean Balto-
Slavic infinitives (lexicalized D. sg. of deverbal nouns in -t-i-)
have been formed from deverbal adjectives in -to- (substituting -o-
theme with -i-theme) or at least along the similar lines, with stress
retraction to the suffix -ti-, whence null-grade (resembling that of
perfects in plural): *leikW- 'leave' > *likWti'- 'left' > *li`kte:i
'to leave'?
Sergei