A while back Piotr Gasiorowski informed us of his theory of the Sanskrit thematic aorist with zero grade (type <avidat>) having evolved from older subjunctive forms. When I asked him whether this Sanskrit aorist information could not have been an independent original aorist formation, having nothing to do with the subjunctive, he said that no other languages provided evidence of its formation.
Now that I have learned some Greek grammar, however, I find the exact same formation in the Greek "strong" aorist, of the type <elipon>, aorist to <leipo:>, with many other examples. So can Piotr or anyone please explain why he said that there is no other evidence of this zero-grade thematic aorist anywhere? It seems to me that since the same formation is found in both Greek and Sanskrit, it must be an original IE formation type! Comments, anyone?
Andrew
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