On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:24:53 +0000, elmeras2000
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jer@...> wrote:
>If you can keep a secret until I have published it (which must be
>soon anyway), I will just say that my present understanding of the
>stative marker is that it is /-H1eH1-/, identical with the
>instrumental case-ending (allowing, e.g., Ved. sus.t.utiá: with
>syllabic -i-)
Just some questions about this Vedic form, feel free to tell
me to wait until it's published.
Is this instrumental sg. (do you mean -yà: = -ía:?) peculiar
to _this_ specific word? Or are there more (oxytone)
i-stems that go this way? Are they also based on Narten
verbal roots?
My Vedic grammar ("for students") has it that the oxytone
i-stems have ins.sg. -yá: with udatta, not -yà: with svarita
(= -ía:). The ending -yà: is found in the *-ih2-stems.
I see (Lubotsky's RgVedic concordance at Leiden) that
sus.t.utí- makes a Gpl. sus.t.uti:nà:m, also on the model of
the ih2-stems.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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