*-ye-, *-sk^e-

>
> But what's your basis for believing that all root presents are
> secondary? There're quite a few of them and they're well in evidence
> everywhere, including Anatolian. It seems more likely to me that

root

> presents and root aorists are equally ancient. If a durative verb

had to

> be derived from an aorist, the most common morphological markers

were

> *-je/o- or *-sk^e/o-, or a nasal infix.

I proposed the infix *-ye- was originally an independent verb *ye-,
the thematic versions of *i- "go". Now suppose the infix *-sk^e/o is
also a thematic verb, the w-participle of which is the stem of the
verb *sk^e-w- "push, shoot" ?


Torsten