Re: passive, ingressive origins

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

>
> > > 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' ?

The auxiliary verb from which you derive the suffix *-ye/o-. Why is
it skipped in the aorist?

>
> 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).

What's the value of such a hypothesis? What would it clarify rather
than obscure?

Jens