singular either arnuši, or arnutti; the third person of dā ‘give’ is either dāi, or -dāizzi, and the inflection of pā ‘give’ or ‘draw’ is in the singular:
| 1. | pāimi or pahhi, ‘I give’, |
| 2. | pāiši or paitti, ‘thou givest’, |
| 3. | paizzi or pāi, ‘he gives’.[1] |
The thought comes to the mind of the author, well-versed as he is in I. E. organisms, that the inflection pahhi, paitti, pāi represents the ō-verb, or thematic conjugation. With pahhi he compares I. E. *bherō (φέρω), but this is hardly more than what the physicians call a placebo. The h of the form is a persistent ‘formative’ element (p. 177) so that the ending is hi. The form dāi reminds Hrozný of Gr. φέρει, itself problematic; Scheftelowitz thinks of Aryan e (= ai), the middle ending of the first and third singular perfect (p. 2, note 2). No real conviction of either speaker or hearer goes with this. Again, if we confront mi and ti as first and second person suffixes, we can hardly fail to remember the same two suffixes in Arzawa at the end of nouns in the sense of ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ (Knudtzon, Zwei Arzawa Briefe, p. 41; Bugge, p. 100; Torp, p. 113). These same suffixes, as well as forms mu, and ta (du), appear also in the Boghazköi documents (p. 120, and p. 128) with the full measure and weight of non-Indo-European conglutinates; explanation of one without the other seems to be illusory. It is as tho in I. E. Greek one could say not only φημί ‘I say’, but also οἰκο-μι ‘my house’.
Perhaps second in importance as regards organic appearance and breadth of scope are the noun-stems in a, i, and u, making nominatives in aš, iš, and uš. An Indo-Europeanist’s mind is sure to respond to the stimulus of u-stems. This category, when oxytone, is the very own of primary adjectival function, describing fysical properties. In Latin adjectives in u have regularly been extended into u-i stems. In order to be on familiar ground I cite first Latin suāvis, brevis, levis, pinguis, mollis, tenuis; in order to show both the extent and primary lexical character of the same type I cite in addition Skt. tṛṣús = Goth. þaúrsus, ‘dry’; Skt. pṛthús = Avestan pǝrǝþu, Gr. πλατύς, ‘broad’; Skt. mṛdús = Gr. βραδύς, ‘slow’; Skt. purús = Gr. πολύς, ‘much’; Skt. āśús = Gr. ὠκύς, ‘swift’; Skt. urús = Gr. εὐρύς,
- ↑ Note the two somewhat different paradigms given by Sommer, l. c., p. 1.
