Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:12:52 -0000, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
><miguelc@...> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:35:05 -0000, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
>> <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>>
>> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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).
>> >
>> >Very productive. A quick perusal of DLKZ^ shows that there are one
>or
>> >two hundreds of them.
>>
>> I did a query on http://www.lkz.lt/startas.htm (*dyti) and I
>> got 1000 results. Not all them verbs (there are adjectives
>> in -dytinis, etc.). My Lithuanian is not good enough to make
>> much sense out of the help/instructions (I saw you could use
>> * and _ [for one character?]), so I don't know how to filter
>> non-verbs out. I also believe the software is telling me
>> (twice) that there are more than 500 results.
>
>Quite a lot of nouns that you need to search for, Miguel, in order to
>prove "the denominal formation" for all these verbs...:)

I only said that baidýti in Lithuanian was probably
denominal (as was confirmed by Sergejus). Verbs in -ýti can
be denominal or deverbal. Some of the examples in -dýti
(-dît) are clearly deverbal (baidýti ~ baîdît is not one of
them), and the obvious explanation for them is that they
were extended with *-dh(h1)- in the sense of "to make, to
do", and further inflected using the inherited causative
suffix *-(e)ih1-.


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