[tied] Re: *bhe-, -y, -w

> Ernout-Meillet (which Jasanoff quotes) has
> (under 'facere') 'calefacere', 'a:refacare', old 'cale
> facere', 'a:re facere', and since 'facere' should take an infinitive
> they venture the guess that 'cale(:)' and 'are(:)' (which apparently
> is exactly the verbal form in *-e: Miguel is looking for (see the
> top of this posting), cf 'cale:bat') are some type of infinitives.
> Jasanoff plays it down to them being verbal nouns, which is fine
> with me; result: 'facere' takes a verbal noun of whatever kind,
> including infinitives.

That verbal noun in *-e might be what we are looking for in Gk. 2nd
sg.'phereis', 3rd sg. 'pherei' (< *phere- + -i), in case all the
finite forms should be old verbal nouns, here in the locative.

_Now_ I'll shut up (for today).


Torsten