[tied] Re: *-t-, put

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-07-09 20:35, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > So the pret. frawarðiða "ruined" is from frawarði-ðiðe: "ruined
> > *does*", not "ruined did"?
> >
> > Hm.
>
> No, it means 'ruined did' (or rather 'made' in Mod.E terms). Note
> that *ðeð-/ðe:ð- is the Germanic _preterite_ of 'to do'. It's the
> present _stem_ but without the present-tense marker (final *-i),
> functioning as the (originally imperfective) past tense. Compare RV
> dádHa:-ti (pres.) vs. á-dadHa:-t (impf.).

*wúrxta- éðeðe:þ > *wurxte: (Goth. waúrhta)
*wúrxta- éðe:ðun > *wurxte:dun (Goth. waúrhte:dun)

?

Ahem.
Apart from this central place, what other traces has the PIE impf.
left in Germanic?


Torsten