Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From the viewpoint of Spanish ter feito sounds like
"get done" and it's used that way in Spanish "(vos)
tenelo hecho" "git 'er done"
It's used as "done and ready" Tengo el ensayo escrito
"I have the essay written (and ready)"


--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > Common origin requires formal homology (the
> historical identity of
> > "substance", not function). If one language forms
> periphrastic verb
> > forms using forms of *kWer- or *h1es-, another
> using *dHeh1-, and still
> > another one using *kap-, this indicated convergent
> but independent
> > development, not common origin.
>
> What about the example of Portuguese _ter_ but
> French _avoir_ to form
> the perfect tenses? Do not these forms have a
> common origin?
>
> (I am not at all sure about the relationship of the
> English _be_ and
> _get_ passives.)
>
> Richard.
>
>
>

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