I'm reading Jasanoff's "Hittite and the IE Verb". Couple of
questions:
(1)
On p. 3, it's said that "the clearest instance of such an
aorist-based mi-verb is te:- 'to say' (pres. 3. sg. te:zzi =
Lyc. tadi 'puts'), the Hittite reflex of the PIE root aorist
*dhéh1-m [etc.] 'put'."
What is clear about it? The verb is conjugated:
temi tarweni tenun
tesi tarteni tet! teten!
tezzi taranzi tet terer teddu! tarandu!
ptc. tarant-, iterative tarsike-/taraske-,
and there is another verb, meaning 'to put', which goes:
tehhi tiyaweni tehhun daiwen
daiti tai(s)teni daista daisten
da:i tianzi dais dair.
LIV also derives the r-less forms of temi from *dheh1-, while
the rest is derived from *ter-. Why should I believe that?
(2)
On p. 32, Jasanoff says that the 1pl. pf. ending is -ma:
(more often than -ma) in the Rgve:da. How come -ma: isn't
mentioned in Macdonell?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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