Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 54548
Date: 2008-03-03

From: Sergejus Tarasovas

> is it possible to regard <baidý-> as deriving from *bhoi-dhé:(H)- ?

In phonetical terms, it would be completely irregular, if derived
*directly* from *bHoidHéh- (one would expect +<baidé:ti>). Of course
one cannot exclude recycling of the original form into a productive
type of causatives in -(d)ýti.

Sergei

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You mean there is no causative
ending with -ty'-(ti) ?

A.

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