Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-yéh₁-
Proto-Indo-European
editSuffix
edit*(Ø)-yéh₁- (oblique stem *(Ø)-ih₁-)
- Forms the optative mood of verbs.
Usage notes
editThis suffix was a derivational suffix in early PIE, like for example *-sḱéti. It was affixed directly to roots in the zero grade rather than to verb stems, and was not formed to statives.
References
edit- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 30