Re: PIE 'inflected' Compounds

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:41:01 -0600, "Patrick Ryan"
<proto-language@...> wrote:

>I have yet to understand why you prefer *H2 rather than *H1 or *H3

I only said it twice.

>2) The Lithuanian <baidýti> requires *bhoi-; you seek to accomplish that by
>supposing a perfect form; but in order to make that viable, you must provide
>for a suffixed *dh(e:(H))- and additionally, a causative -*ye.

No, baidýti is irrelevant. The crucial verbs are Lith.
bijóti, Slavic bojati, German beben and the Indo-Iranian
forms (see LIV, which doesn't even mention baidýti)

>If you want to persuade anyone that *dhe:(H)- can mean 'make, do' in a
>compound, produce one or two PIE compounds in which this meaning is mandated
>semantically.

I would think the Baltic causatives in -dýti will do fine.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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