A Germanic verb in the Hittite fashion

To repeat:
Hittite inflects
3sg lég-zi, 3pl leng-ánzi

I think it's the /g/ what did it: before the stressed
syllable it sweats out its prenasalization as a proper
/n/ (which in some connections might turn into lengthening
of the preceding vowel).

Therefore I think PIE inflected 'n-infixed' stems like this:
3sg *yúk-ti, 3pl *yung-énti

Therefore it will have inflected *pag- "fix, attach" the same way:
3sg *pák-ti, 3pl *pang-énti

That's where the *pak-, *pa:g- stems come from, and the Germanic
double stem *fax-, *fang- comes from
(cf *hax-, *hang-; *gax-, *gang-)


Torsten