Re: kentum/satem built-in already in PIE?

> The ablaut vowel _never_ becomes Slavic *i (normally
> reflecting older *i: or *ei). Cf. the *bHéreti pattern
> (Slavic *beroN, *beretI; *pekoN, pec^etI). The particular
> formation of *prositi reflects the PIE causative/iterative
> in *-eje/o- (*prok^-ejo:, *prok^-éjeti), with the somewhat
> irregular "smoothing out" of the suffix to *-jo-/*-i:-.

That irregular causative/iterative suffix looks suspiciously
like the verb *i:- "go", the way Schmalstieg would have seen
it (semi-thematic, in a fashion)

jõ
i&s
i&t
jõmV
i&tV
jõnt


the way Miguel wanted that suffix be a finite verb (but not
this particular verb); if this is so, then the regular *-eyo/e-
suffix is the same verb in a thematic version.

cf Latin
e[y]o:
i:s
i:t
i:mus
i:tis
e[y]unt

and pres. part.
nom. iens [ = *i&ns]
obl. eunt- [= *e[y]ont-]


Torsten