Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>
> --- In 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

Sergei,

<baidýti>
<gimdýti>
<mindýti>

are denominal or not?

I think taht they are not denominal.

But you are a native speaker.

Thanks,
Marius