A question about Greek or Latin

[proto-language]

Dear Xavier and IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Xavier Delamarre" <xavier.delamarre at free.fr>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 11:30 AM

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The verbal causative-iterative suffixe has in PIE the form -éyo-/-e,
added to the root in the o grade (giving a: in Sanskrit after Lex
Bartholomae) : *wérto: / *wortéyo: ; *men(o:) / *monéyo: ; *sed(o:) /
*sodéyo: etc.

[PR]

What would you say to the alternate explanation that the causative formant is
*-ye, and that its addition shifted the stress-accent one syllable to the
right, preserving (or re-instating) an otherwise lost final vowel of the root?

Pat

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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/indexR.html "Veit ec
at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío, geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim
meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn." (Hávamál 138)