Re: Urgently required: PIE refill!

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Dan Jones wrote:

>No-one seems to have got back to me on my PIE question! Please help! I hate
>to seem to be bugging you, but I'm at my wit's end! Here's my original
>request:
Palmer gives the following:
primary                 secondary
-mi     --              -m      -me/o
-si     --              -s      -te
-ti     -nti            -t      -nt

He says that an optional particle, -i, meaning "here and now" could
be added to the ending. It thus became a temporal reference: primary
= present; secondary = past. He says 1st and 2nd plural didn't have
primary endings at all.

Can't find dual inflexion, but the pronouns given in Haudry are:
1st             2nd
*wey-/*we:-     *yu:s

Padraic.

>
>What were the PIE "secondary" verbal endings? And what were the dual verbal
>inflections. I know what they were used for, but what did they look like?
>The Sanskrit endings -vah, -thah and -tah in the present points to IE forms
>*-wos *-dhos (?) *-tos, are these correct and what were the forms in the
>other "tenses". While we're at it, what were the dual pronouns? Please,
>please, please help me! Aredos' future depends on this!
>
>You don't have to reply to the list for this, you can just reply to me if
>you prefer.
>
>Dan
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