Re: Negation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@...> wrote:

>
> >The odd think about accented <oukHí> is the
> > use of aspiration outside its original sandhi context.
>
> Greek does have a fair number of unetymological cases of kH where k is
> expected. Perfect tenses are an example.

But aspiration is etmological in the 1s and unetymological in the 3s,
deriving from the 1s perfect suffix -H2a, whence the Sanskrit perfect
tense alternation _caka:ra_ 3s by Brugmann's law (*o > a: in open
syllables) and the alternative 1s forms - analogical _caka:ra_ and
inherited _cakara_ (2nd syllable closed by the laryngeal).

Richard.