Re: Urgently required: PIE refill!

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 12:38:00 +0100, Dan Jones <yl-ruil@...> wrote:

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> 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".
This question seems to be really difficult. For example, Old Church
Slavonic has *gender* distinction for them: 1 -va, 2-3 -ta for masc.,
vs. 1 -vê, 2-3 -tê for fem. (and neu.?). May be a secondary feature,
by analogy with the nominal endings, but shows what bizarre levellings
could be involved here in individual langs.


Basilius