[tied] Re: *-t-, put

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

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> > The short /e/ of OS deda, OHG teta is from *i by a-umlaut which is
> > apparently later than the replacement of /e/ by /e:/ in the
> > reduplication. Thus Gmc. *ðiðe:, *ðe:ðun presupposes *ðiðe:,

*ðeðun

> > from IE *dhi-dhéH1-t, *dhé-dhH1-n.t .
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> Is that a perfect, or an intensive present?

It's a normal reduplicated athematic present.

Jens