Re: Despots etc

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> Barrow: The Sanskrit Language
> "
> Roots in a: commonly insert -p- before the causative suffix :
> da:páyati, stha:páyati, ma:páyati, etc., from da:- ' to give ',
> stha:-' to stand ', ma:- ' to measure ', etc. This -p- is an old
> suffix or enlargement which is known from comparative evidence to
> have been associated with certain of such roots (Lith. stapýtis ' to
> stand still').
> "

> Under those circumstances it is probably not too risky to posit a
> causative PIE *dom-p-éy-.

PIE sto-p-éy- -> Lith. stapý-, obviously.


Torsten