Re: passive, ingressive origins

From: tgpedersen
Message: 38874
Date: 2005-06-22

> > > > > 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?
> >
>
> Don't causatives and iteratives have an aorist?


Are you talking about root aorists with present stems extended with
*-ye/o ?


Torsten