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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> Of course, if the form allows only for a causative, how does that
affect the
> status of *bhoi- ?
>
> Could that element be nominal in conjunction with *-dhe:(H)- to
produce the
> verb for the causative?
With recycling, everything is possible. By the way, I wonder where the
very type of Lithuanian causatives/iteratives in -dýti comes from. In
that specific case of <baidýti> the <d> could well be part of the
root, but there are a lot of Lithuanian causatives (<gìmti> 'be born'
--> <gimdýti> 'give birth to') and iteratives (<mìnti> 'press' ->
<mindýti> 'press (iterative)') in -dýti where the <d> is clearly a
suffix (cf. the above examples). If this -d- is not from *-dHh1-, then
what from?
Sergei