On Wed, 24 May 2006 00:52:06 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
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mcv@...> wrote:
>In Latin (where any short
>vowel in this position would yield -i-), we find -itus in
>a:-stems (domitus), e:-stems ("essive-fientives") (tacitus),
>etc.
In this context (although not direvctly relevant to this
Latin form), it might be a good idea to restate my thoughts
about the "essive-fientive"-suffix, which I derive from the
PIE "long diphthong" *-eh1i-. According to the rules stated
by Jens R., we should expect the following variants:
*-éh1- before CC or -C#
*-éih1- before C(V)
*-éh1i- before V
and unstressed:
*-h1i- before V or voiced C
*-&1- before voiceless C (or at least /t/).
The athematic paradigm would then be:
*-éih1-mi impf/aor: *-éh1-m
*-éih1-si *-éh1-s
*-éih1-ti *-éh1-t
*-h1i-mós *-h1i-mós
*-&1-tés *-&1-té
*-h1i-énti *-h1i-ént
As happened with most né/n-verbs, Slavic generalized the
full-grade singular form (*-eih1-), Baltic the zero-grade
plural form (*-h1i-). The infintive takes *-eh1- from the
aorist (we would expect original *-&1-téi?). Thematization
and contraction in Slavic gets rid of the acute, so we have:
*-éih1-o: > -joN
*-éih1-esi > -i~s^I
*-éih1-et(i) > -i~t(I)
*-eih1-emós > -i~mU
*-eih1-etés > -i~te
*-eih1-ont(i) > -eNt(I)
aorist
*-éh1-t > -ê, etc.
infinitive
*-eh1-téi > -ê"ti
And in Lithuanian:
*-i-o: > -iu
*-i-?: > -i
*-i-t > -i
*-i-me: > -ime
*-i-te: > -ite
*-i-nt > (-iN)
inf. -é:ti
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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