Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

> No. The fact remains that the circumflex in Lithuanian is
> incompatible with the acute in Latvian. Derksen sees the
> acute in Latvian as secondary, but he apparently departs
> from a root *bhoi-dhh1- without laryngeal

He didn't. See Dersken on Leiden: *bHoih-d(H)h1-

Marius

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Marius,

You still have not refuted
my proposal :
Ground form *bhoiH- "fear"
Medio-passive derivative
*bhiH-t?-
Meaning : to be afraid
(CF. LAtin timi-d-us)
Causative -eje
*bhoiH-t?-eje-
To cause to be afraid
hence
*baidy'-ti.

I still cannot see
why -d- should be *-dh-

It goes against semantics.

Arnaud

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