Intensive Reduplication

[Vidhyanath Rao]

Patrick C. Ryan <proto-language at email.msn.com> wrote:
> 1) Obviously, *Heyew  is not a canonical IE root form.
> 2) Would you consider the original root *Hey- and -w a root extension?
> 3) Would you consider the possibility that the root is *yew- and that *He is
> a preverb which may or may not have been present in the earliest IE?

There seems to be little reason to assume the existence of preverbs that
were fused with verbs in PIE. Within Benvensite's theory of root shapes, we
have to consider Hyew a stage II extension from an Hey. But for late PIE, I
think that extended roots need to be considered distinct lexical items
anyway, to the point is moot.