Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 54562
Date: 2008-03-03

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

Lettish counterparts has no acute accent.
So seems that Lithuanian has changed the accent 'recently' in
thesewh cases (whenever Lettish as a different accent pattern).
Could you find a rule?

> 2. an irregular development *-eje- > -y- (but cf. try~s '3' and >
the N. sg. of i-stems -y~s, both supposedly < *-ejes).

Sergei what is rule in try~s?

Thanks again,
Marius