From: elmeras2000
Message: 36371
Date: 2005-02-17
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
Piotr asked Miguel:
> >Do you see any difficulties with *-eh1-/*-h1-je/o- outside Balto-
Slavic?
Miguel replied:
> Yes. Latin and Celtic have *-eh1ye- (presumably *-éh1ye-),
> which is consistent with early thematization of full grade
> *-éh1i-. Germanic probably reflects the same thing.
> ...
But a stretch *-eh1ye- was never in doubt. That will have to be the
form of the present stem of stative verbs derived from thematic
adjectives, as *sén-e/o- 'old' => *sen-e-h1-ye- 'be old', aorist
*sen-e-h1- 'become old'. In this type the stative suffix appears in
the zero-grade (*-eh1- > *-h1-, or for that matter *-h1eh1- > *-h1h1-
which probably sounded the same) because the thematic vowel
precedes it. Therefore languages reflecting only *-e:-ye- may very
well have generalized the form that was productively used with
thematic adjectives. That would make video: analogical on albeo:.
Jens