Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their thematic vowel

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, that makes sense.

> >> 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 the *-j- comes from the verb stem?

When do you think the *-a- ending was added?

Thanks.

- Rob