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Athematic Verbs Durative, Thematic Verbs Momemtary

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Louis H. Gray
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Language , Volume 9 , Issue 1-Part1 , March 1933, pp. 82 - 84
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Copyright © 1933 Linguistic Society of America

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1 With Greek δíδωμι (cf. OLith. dúomi), ημι, τíθημι (cf. OLith. díedmi) cf. the suppletive Alb. ap: δaš∈, Oír. do-beir : do-rat, and Alb. : ndena, OIr. cuir : rolá; with κτíννυμι beside κτ∈íνω cf. Skt. hánti : ávadhīt; with ζώνννμι cf. OLith. júosmi; and with στημι cf. OLith. stówmi.

2 Survey of material based on W. Veitch, Greek Verbs, Irregular and Defective, new ed., Oxford, 1887. The additional athematic verbs recorded in the Greek dialects afford no help in the present connexion.

3 For suppletion in verbs, in addition to H. Osthoff, Vom Suppletivwesen der indogermanischen Sprachen 7–15, Heidelberg, 1899, see L. Renou, Grammaire sanscrite 399–400, Paris, 1930; A. Meillet, Esquisse d'une grammaire comparée de l'arménien classique 101–2, Vienna, 1903, and Le Slave commun 246, Paris, 1924; Brugmann-Thumb, Griechische Grammatik4 554, Munich, 1913; H. Hirt, Handbuch der griechischen Laut- und Formenlehre2 475–6, Heidelberg, 1912; G. Meyer, Kurzgefasste albanesische Grammatik 47, Leipzig, 1888; H. Pedersen, Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen 2. 271–2, 449, 453, 463–4, 473–4, 476, 489, 498, 545, 554, 558–9, 639, 642, Göttingen, 1909–13; R. Thurneysen, Handbuch des Alt-Irischen 443–8, Heidelberg, 1909; J. Vendryes, Grammaire du vieilirlandais 181–3, Paris, 1908; R. Bethge, in F. Dieter, Laut- und Formenlehre der altgermanischen Dialekte 390–1, Leipzig, 1900 (also Dieter, ib. 456); for a list of athematic verbs in OLith. see F. Kurschat, Grammatik der littauischen Sprache 304–6, Halle, 1876; for Slavic Meillet, Slave 168–72, 246.

4 For the forms cf. Brugmann 2. 3. 102–3; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1. 827, 2. 603, 1. 588ff. The following list of suppletive verbs in Turfanian ('Tokharian A') may be of interest in the present connexion: present āk, 'journey, conduct', preterite wā; i ‘go’, kalk; e ‘give’, wäs; käly ‘be’, stäni; ken ‘call, name’, kāk; träṅk ‘say’, wen; nas ‘be’, imperfect e, preterite tāk; present pār ‘carry, bring’, preterite kām; ya (ypa) ‘make’, yām; yok ‘drink’, tsuk; läk ‘see’, pälk; śwā ‘eat’, tāp; ām ‘be, sit’, läm (W. Schulze, E. Sieg, and W. Siegling, Tokharische Grammatik 422, 423, 424, 432, 433–4, 441–2, 444, 448–9, 457–8, 460–1, 463–4, 475–6, Göttingen, 1931).

5 Cf. Thurneysen 321–2; Pedersen 2. 263–4.

6 For perfectivation see Brugmann 2. 3. 81–2; Brugmann-Thumb 548–50; D. Barbelenet, De l'aspect verbal en latin ancien passim, Paris, 1913; A. Leskien, Litauisches Lesebuch 188–9, Heidelberg, 1919; Meillet, Slave 248–51. For the term ‘completive’ for this type I am indebted to my pupil Mr. William S. Smith.