Re: Res: Res: Res: [tied] Re: 'dyeus'

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 66301
Date: 2010-07-12

W dniu 2010-07-12 06:35, stlatos pisze:

> Is this other 'yesterday'?

Yes.

> What about the odd cognates in other
> languages that sometimes have -t- even when the word had no -sr- and
> they don't insert -t- anyway? It looks to me like no more than, say, *
> gYHd.es i '(at) yesterday', * gYHd.es ti '(to) yesterday', with adv. >>
> adj. * gYHd.esin.os, * gYHd.estin.os (with, as always, opt. n. > r. and
> i > ï > ë > 0). The dif. in meaning is difficult to render in idiomatic
> English, perhaps something like: "I was hit yesterday" and "I've been
> hurt since yesterday".

I'm not sure which particular cognates you have in mind. My solution
accounts for some otherwise problematic aspects of the Germanic term,
including the long vowel in the alleged root locative.

Piotr