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

On Uto, svibanj 23, 2006 1:01 pm, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:

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

> My favourite idea is that the causatives were denominative (hence the
> R-fix), e.g. *woidé(i)-je-, related to *woido- (= Skt. veda) + *-je-,
> perhaps via *R-wjd-o- reduced to *R-wjd-j- before an originally
> accented suffix (*-jé-) and then receiving a prop vowel which attracts
> the accent from the suffix.

I didn't quite get you. Do you believe that causatives are originally just
denominative verbs or that they were just derived from nouns (but with
causative meaning)? Both sounds pretty strange to me...

Mate