Re: [tied] Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their themati

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:59:55 +0000, Rob
<magwich78@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
>wrote:
>
>> The -a- is a suffix forming iterative stems.
>
>Where did/does it come from?

Probably *-ah2-, as Latin -a:re.

>> The /S/ comes from *-s- > + *-j- (*pros-i-ti vs. *pras-j-a-ti).
>
>Yes, that's what I had guessed. Where does the *-j- come from, then?

The usual pattern for this kind of verbs is short voweled
i-verb (e.g. skoc^iti, skoc^joN, skoc^itI) vs. long-voweled
a/je-verb (skakati, skac^joN, skac^jetI).

So we would expect *prasac', *praszeN, *prasze, instead of
praszac', praszam, prasza. Is this a Polish innovation?


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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