Re: Theoretical synopsis of Etruscan verbs

From: tgpedersen
Message: 34610
Date: 2004-10-12

> Get it? Good. There are _no_ personal endings whatsoever as we
> might see in IE. This makes me disappointed but what can you do, eh?

Hm. Is this due to loss in Tyrrhenian or 'accretion' in PIE? I hope
the last is true, since then PIE might have accreted proper words
like *m-n- "man, soul, think" etc etc, an idea I would ascribe to
3000 BCE, as part of its personal endings.


> /zilcHnce/ "he led, he was a zilch"
> (zilcH "leader" + -n- [middle] + -c [perfect] + -e [past])
> MIDDLE PERFECT PAST
Noun used as verbal stem?


Torsten