From: alex_lycos
Message: 17695
Date: 2003-01-16
> ----- Original Message -----Interesting . Are the slavic singular in this way of making gerundium?
> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:24 AM
> Subject: [tied] gerundium in slavic
>
>
>> which are the suffixes for gerundium in slavic languages? Are these
>> suffixes too reflexes of
>> "-nd" cluster?
>
> No. They are related to the preterite passive participles in -t- and
> -(e)n- and were originally derived by adding the suffix *-Ije to them
> (which is why in Proto-Slavic they were initially formed from
> transitive verbs only)
>
> *bitU 'beaten' --> *bitIje 'beating' (activity)
> *pletenU 'intertwined, woven' --> *pletenIje 'intertwining, weaving'
>
> Piotr
>
> Piotr