[tied] Re: sum

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> tgpedersen wrote:
>
> >>>Now where do _those_ 3rd sg -s-t come from?
> >>
> >>d+t
> >
> > Other examples of that rule in Slavic?
>
> Cf. e.g. infinitives of -d final stems: *ved-oN/*ves-ti,
> *seNd-oN/*ses-ti, *klad-oN/*klas-ti. Actually, any *-t+t-, *-d+t- or
> *-dH+t- ends up as -st- in Slavic.
>

Oh, nice! Of course. Jasanoff sees the s-aorist as a generalisation of
a 3rd sg in *-s-t the -s- of which spread to other persons and number.
He claims some obscure sources for that deviant 3rd sg *-s-t. This one
would make it much easier.


Torsten