Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

On 2008-02-26 00:46, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> Is the origin of Germanic dental preterit the PIE dheh1- 'to set, to
> place, to make, to do' ?
>
> If so, this means that initially -dheh1 was a deitic particle having
> his own meaning.

What seems to occur in the dental preterite is the old reduplicated
imperfect of *dHeh1-, namely *dHi-dHéh1-t/*dHé-dH(h1)-n.t > Gmc.
*ðiðe:(ð)/*ðe:ðun(ð):

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> I would like to ask what could be the original meaning of this particle
> <Verb> + <dHeh1> ?

There is no "particle" here, but a common-or-garden periphrastic
construction consisting of a past participle and an auxiliary verb:

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Piotr