[SPAM]Re: [tied] Re: PS Emphatics

> > There are also other patterns: gita get instead of gita gitte

(bring

> > oneself to do) from a verb like skita sket (shit shat).
>
> Not likely. Da gide gad, a relative of Eng. get got, therefore
> originally strong, supposedly (DEO) a relative of that well-travelled
> PIE (or what?) *ghe(n)d- "grasp".
>
>
> Torsten

OK.
Received Sw. is "gitta gitte", old (obsolete) "gat".
"gita" /ji:ta/ is dialect and "get" is probably a new formation on the
pattern "slita slet" rather than from "gat".

*ghe(n)d has wide semantic glide from "grasp" to "receive","possess" in
English to "be able","bring oneself to do" in Scandinavian.

Lars