On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:29:32 +0000, elmeras2000 <
jer@...> wrote:
>Note that also Gk. /h-/ may cause lengthening, as shown many years
>ago by Martin Peters: Attic hí:e:mi 'I send, throw' from *Hyi-HyeH1-
>mi. For anyone who accepts breaking in iH2/iH3, this is unambiguosly
>from *H1yi-H1yéH1-mi.
I'm not sure if *h1yi-h1yeh1- can be original. Wouldn't we expect only the
first consonant to be used in the reduplication syllable (*h1i-h1yeh1- like
*si-steh2-)? Not that it matters much if *y- was added later to a form
*i:ye:- (> *yi:ye:- > hi:e:-).
To return to my theory about the causative as o-grade root + *ey-e/o-,
where *-ey-e/o- (also *-p(e)-ey-e/o-) comes from a verb meaning "to do, to
make", as in Hittite iyami, iyesi (*h1ey-e/o-)... Can the Greek verb then
be analyzed as *h1ey- + stative suffix *-eh1- + present reduplication, in
other words *h1(y)i-h1y-eh1-?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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