This suffix, probably originally making iteretive verbe, is among the
oldest elements in IE. It has a tendency to steadily find new uses.
In modern Italian, it is also used to mark present tense. Ex modern
Italian fin-isc-o - I finish.
In Scandinavian it marks factitive or causative verbs, ex: ren- clean
(A(adj) ren-ske-e - to clean (v)
It is also found in finnish to mark repetition (in combination with
another element) oppi-a to learn, opi-sk-el-la to study
Since the suffix is so old and well established from the earliest
time, I think it is quite possible that it originated in an even
earlier proto-language than IE. But at that earlier time, it was not
necessarily a suffix, but could have been a verb used as an auxiliary
to mark repetition, and probably had a stem vowel (=svke.)
--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Simona Klemencic"
<simona.klemencic@...> wrote:
>
> tgpedersen je napisal:
>
> > Why does one of the Permian languages use the same device, with the
> > same suffix, to create the same result as some IE languages? Where
> > does that leave the IE status of IE *-sk-?
>
> It makes it another item on the not so short list of the supposed
common
> features of "Indo-Uralic".
>
> The longer this list is getting, the better for the Indo-Uralic
theory.
>