Re: [tied] Path [was: Re: Gypsies again]

Rob wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>>There are quite few such roots, including *menth2- 'stir', *reth2-
>>'travel' (hence *roth2-o-), and *meg^h2- (if *meg^o:h2s/*meg^h2 is a
>>root adjective).
>
>
> Well, that's good then! :)
>
> Do you think the *-x was a root extension?

I've no idea what it was, to tell the truth. From the point of view of
PIE grammar something like *menth2- is an unanalysable morpheme and can
function as a verb root; it can even form a present stem with a nasal
infix like this: *//mnt-ne-h2-// --> *mn.tnah2-ti (Skt. matHna:ti, with
analogical /tH/). This of course doesn't preclude the possibility of a
deeper etymology.

Piotr