From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 47208
Date: 2007-02-01
>Which brings me to the Lithuanian optative.Can anyone offer some insights or pointers to the relevant
>
>At the "A. Richard Diebold Center for Indo-European Language
>and Culture", Baltic, Old Lithuanian, Verbal system
>(http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/litol-7-X.html#Lit07_GP34_01),
>I find the following information:
>
>>..Lithuanian has forms deriving from the Indo-European optative. The East Lithuanian Vilnius
>>dialect has retained forms the basis of which is not the infinitive, but rather the present
>>tense stem, e.g.,
>>
>>2nd sg nès^(i) 'carry' (3 pres. ne~s^a '(he) carries'), duõd(i) 'give' (3 pres. dúoda '(he) gives').
>>2nd sg mýly 'love' (3 pres. mýli '(he) loves'), z^iu:ry~ 'look' (3 pres. z^iu:~ri '(he) looks').
>>2nd sg dãrai 'make' (3 pres. dãro ' (he) makes'), gáudai 'catch' (3 pres. gáudo '(he) catches').
>>
>>This type of the imperative mood is related to the desiderative mood (permisive). It has only the
>>third person forms derived from the Indo-European optative. They are reinforced with the preposed
>>particle te-, e.g.:
>>
>>tenes^ie~ 'let (someone) carry';
>>tez^iu:ry~ 'let (someone) look';
>>tegáudai 'let (someone) catch'.
>
>The Vilnius forms cited above are 2sg., but lack final -s.
>They are not, however, identical to the 2sg. indicative
>forms in their accentuation. What am I to make of these
>forms?