Re: [tied] Re: Semantic differentiation between thematic and athema

From: Sean Whalen
Message: 45399
Date: 2006-07-18

> > It is a strange fact that the manifestly secondary
> tudáti type is
> > present in Hittite (suwe-zzi 'pushes' = Ved.
> suvá-ti 'pushes'),
> > while the much better secured type of bhárati,
> ájati etc. is not
> > found at all.

Accented e/o remain, other e/o deleted so originally
thematic verbs look athematic in Hittite.

Neither form is secondary; they're both original and
meant different things right from the start.


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