Re: hunt

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

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> --- 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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> if -m extensions means "from there to here"
> *gWem- "to go, from there to here"
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> and -h2-extension means "from here (back?) to there" ?
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> *gWeh2- 'to move away, go' ==> "to go from here to there"
> *sneh2- 'to float, swim' ==> "to float from here to there"

And perhaps the /l/-extension means 'to a place out of sight', related to the root of Lat. <ultra:> 'beyond', OL <olle> 'that yonder', etc.??

*steh2- 'to place upright there, to stand up there'
*stel- 'to place upright out of sight' > 'to send away'

I need to look for some other examples.

DGK