Re: passive, ingressive origins

> > Is it further possible to see the suffix -yé/ó- as a thematic
> version
> > of the root *ye- "impel, throw"?
>
> Not for me. I only know that verb as *H1yeH1-: Hitt. iemi 'I make'
> and Gk. hí:e:mi 'I throw, send' from IE *H1yi-H1yéH1-mi. And why
> would it form only the present aspect?
>

Which 'it' ?

I thought further that perhaps *ye- "impel" <- "make go" might a
thematic version of *ei- "go", a causative without a causative suffix,
cf English 'walk', march' and other verbs of motion (I can't very well
fit in a causative suffix into a verb I think made up the IE
causative).


Torsten