Re: [tied] Re: To be or not to be... or to have.

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:52:29 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>The Anatolian

Greek, Indo-Iranian,

>use of
>a similar verb for "sit" might conceivably be a perfect vrddhied form
>*e:s- for the use in the mediopassive. It would convey a resultative
>sense of "to be" such as "to come to be", "to come to remain here".
>Thus "I come to remain here for myself > I seat myself" *e:sxor.

Ridiculous.

"to sit"/"to stand"/"to lie" > "to be", never the other way around.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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