From: Torsten
Message: 65400
Date: 2009-11-10
>That *l- thing is not an adjective.
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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"
>
> 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.
>