Re: Balto-Slavic -RHj-?

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

>
> --- 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

There is big mess. -S gives full and short action, but suffix passed
into other tenses (maybe first it was only in past tense), it's
interesting feature.