Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 54542
Date: 2008-03-03

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> How should y~ (-ti) be analyzed ?
>
> i-H1
> i-H2
> i-y-
> other ?
>


It's tempting to relate it to the *-éje- of PIE causatives (especially
since the verbs in -ýti show a(<*o)-vocalism), but I don't know what
to do with 1. acute 2. an irregular development *-eje- > -y- (but cf.
try~s '3' and the N. sg. of i-stems -y~s, both supposedly < *-ejes).

Sergei