Re: -i, -u

The primary verb suffix -i may very well be _the same_ suffix as in
the locative, but that doesn't mean that it originally had a locative
sense. The loc. -i may also originate from a "hic et nunc"-meaning.

Hello, by the way, I'm a new member of this group. I'm a student in
comparative Germanic linguistics at the University in Oslo.

Sverre

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> If the -i suffix of the primary inflection is the locative -i, as
> some claim, and the whole word therefore is a locativic
construction
> in the style of English progressive 'be V-ing', then the rest of
the
> word must be some kind of gerund, or verbal noun, or rather a
> personal such (because of the personal endings -m, -s, -t),
> thus: "my V-ing", "thy V-ing", "his V-ing".