Re: Balto-Slavic -RHj-?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "whetex_lewx" <whetex_lewx@...>
wrote:

[On -s-aorists]

> Who said that Lith. doesn't have these?

I got the impression you did, but I may have misunderstood the reason
for your objection.

> What's about skir-ti (to
> cut, to separate, to segment) and skir-s-t-y-ti (to do the same

acts

> but in shorter time and do full action), also dre:b-ti and drab-s-t-
> y-ti (plonk away, flop)
> Sre:b-ti, Sreb-s-c^-io-ti
>
> ver-ti, var-s-t-y-ti
>
> and etc...

Well, for starters they aren't aorists but derivational patterns. Are
there any reasons for assuming that the -s-aorist was involved in
their rise?


Willem