[tied] Re: sum

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:27:35 +0000, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >> >I was wondering: are there any examples of athematic verbs

with

> >> >secondary endings (ie. *-C-m *-C-s *-C-t ... *-C-nt) ?
> >>
> >> Of course.
> >>
> >> >And to
> >> >anticipate a possible 'no': then such a paradigm would, to

remain

> >> >pronounceable proceed to *-C-om *-C-s *-C-t ... *-C-ont
> >>
> >> C-m., -C-s, -C-t. PIE had syllabic resonants.
> >>
> >> The 3pl. ath. ending *-ént(i) was only reduced in acrostatic
> >> and reduplicated verbs ('-n.t(i)).
> >>
> >
> >In other words, we have here an example of PIE -N.- > Latin -oN-
>
> No. PIE *-m(.) was, as you said, a _secondary_ ending, to
> be found in the aorist or imperfect. Latin maintains the
> *-m in the imperfect (but always preceded by -a:-: amabam,
> eram), not in the merged aorist/perfect.
>

In that case the argument hinges on whether the Latin present
endings continue the primary or the secondary endings.


Torsten