Re: hunt

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> I won't rain on your Paradebeispiel; it seems a reasonable enough way of explaining verb-classes with nasal infixation. But I don't see how a similar mechanism could account for the diversity of PIE root-extensions. To me they look like postfixes corresponding to old postpositions; this explains the difficulty in pinning down their original semantic force. Possibly *-m 'toward' is identical with the animate accusative marker.
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> DGK
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if -m extensions means "from there to here"
*gWem- "to go, from there to here"

and -h2-extension means "from here (back?) to there" ?

*gWeh2- 'to move away, go' ==> "to go from here to there"
*sneh2- 'to float, swim' ==> "to float from here to there"

Marius