Augment (was Re: German ge- ptcpl cognates?)

[petegray]

>> where is the evidence on the correlation mentioned between
>> asigmatic aorists and absence of augment?

> Blumenthal, [comparing]  strong aorist ..and weak aorist

Thanks!  But can I check two things:

(a) Has he used "strong" to mean "asigmatic" rather than "second"?  (There
are number of asigmatic first aorists, e.g. e:ggeila, hgeira, e:ra e:muna
apekriname:n ege:ma edw:ka etc)

(b) What about verbs that appear to be asigmatic/"strong" merely because
they lost their -s- in the development of the language?   Would these affect
the results?

Peter