Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 05:09:12 -0600, "Patrick Ryan"
<proto-language@...> wrote:

>In Lithuanian <baidýti>, 'scare', everyone but Marius seems to agree that
>the underlying IE form is *bhoi-dh-.
>
>The full-grade form of this word would be *bho:(H)i-dhe:(H)-;
>
>the zero-grade form would be *bh&i-dhe:(H)-.
>
>What, then, is *bhoi-dh-?
>
>Is it a locative or not?
>
>And if the answer is that it is not, what accounts for its form, diverging
>from both full-grade and zero-grade?
>
>If there has been a clear answer to this question already given, I apologize
>but I have not been able to recognize it.

*bhoih2- (etc.) is a perfect (generally preterito-present
"to be afraid"), the only formation from this root attested
outside of Indo-Iranian.

*bhoih2-dh(h1)- is derived from that, probably by adding
*dheh1-, the meaning being "to make frightened" (verb) or
"fright-maker" (noun).


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