Re: sum

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> > The operative word here is 'bridge', obviously you see the
> behavior
> > of the thematic vowel and the behavior of Latin 'sum' etc as two
> > unrelated phenomena.
>
> Not really: The inherited paradigm of *H1esmi is being adjusted to
> that of other inhertited athematics (edo, eo) which have

themselves

> been adjusted to the semithematic pattern that emerged from

allegro

> reduction of some high-frequency thematics. Therefore the
> predesinential vowels of these verbs *are* the thematic vowel, and
> that's why they behave according to its rules.
>

I was wondering: are there any examples of athematic verbs with
secondary endings (ie. *-C-m *-C-s *-C-t ... *-C-nt) ? And to
anticipate a possible 'no': then such a paradigm would, to remain
pronounceable proceed to *-C-om *-C-s *-C-t ... *-C-ont; in other
words a semi-thematic paradigm, which would therefore be the
fundamental one for secondary endings.


Torsten