Re: [tied] i-verbs in Baltic and Slavic

> an old idea of mine, that the
> causative-iterative is an old compund of verbal root
> (showing o-grade with "Rasmussen infix", which must have
> some meaning) plus the verb "to make" [ = Hittite iyami,
> iyezzi etc.] This would also explain the intercalation of
> the preverb pV- [Hitt. piyami, piyezzi] in Vedic
> causatives-iteratives such as dha:-páya "cause to put",
> jña-páya "cause to know", etc.

I was following you until this point - you have probably left out something
very simple, which I should know.
How does "verb root + *Hyeh1-" explain the insertion of Skt -pV-?
Where does this -pV- come from?
Or how do you propose getting Skt -pV- from *Hyeh1- ?

Peter