Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 54567
Date: 2008-03-03

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> <baidýti>
> <gimdýti>
> <mindýti>
> are denominal or not?
> I think taht they are not denominal.


<gimdýti> and <mindýti> are deverbal, <baidýti> is not so clear. The
normal distribution is between causatives/iteratives in <-ýti/-o> and
denominatives in <-ýti/-ija> (<dalýti>/<dalìja> 'divide',
<vir~s^yti>/<vir~s^ija> 'exceed'), but the border is permeable, cf.
<dalýti>/<dãlo> 'divide', <virs^ýti>/<vir~s^o> 'put higher'.

Sergei