[tied] Re: Hittite preterites

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 21273
Date: 2003-04-26

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, CeiSerith@... wrote:
> In a message dated 4/26/2003 10:53:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> a_konushevci@... writes:
>
>
> > PIE root *kwoyw-eyo
>
> If this root existed, what would it have meant?
>
> David Fickett-Wilbar
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ENTRY: kwei-2
DEFINITION: To pile up, build, make. O-grade form *kwoi-. a. cheetah,
from Sanskrit kya, body; b. suffixed form *kwoi-wo-, making, in
denominative verb *kwoiw-eyo-. poem, poesy, poet, poetic, –poiesis, –
poietic; epopee, mythopoeic, onomatopoeia, pharmacopoeia, from Greek
poiein, to make, create. (Pokorny 2. kei- 637.)

So, it is suffixed form *kwoi-wo, making, in denominative verb *kwoiw-
eyo-.

Konushevci