Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-03-03 11:15, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
>
> > 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?


> How on earth did it get there if it's from *-dHh1-? It's quite
> intriguing how productive the type is (there are scores of

examples). Is

> there a corresponding formation in Latvian? (I can't check it at

the

> moment.)

There are plenty of dH- formation in Latvian too.


Also it Seems that you need to read this too:
http://books.google.com/books?
id=qNa73ncPKUAC&pg=PA345&dq=Latvian+causative+iterative+d-
&sig=uAics3R5nKIzQ6HpKWd2ltg9MLc#PPA349,M1


Marius