Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>
> I am not going to intrude into this discussion except to say that I

believe

> Piotr is completely right to link -*to participles with Germanic

dental

> preterites.
>
> Subsequently, the participial phrase was interpreted as finite; and

personal

> endings added.
>
> Patrick
>

-to was a sufix already in PIE times
-dHeh1 was a still a verb in PIE times

marius