REICHERT VERLAG WIESBADEN 2000

The Vedic type syati revisited' Abstract: This paper deals with the verbs belonging to the Vedic type sytiti. It is argued that the class VI analysis (-sy-ti-ti,-dy-ti-ti, etc.) conforms much better to the synchronic features (semantics, syntax, paradigmatic properties, etc.) of this group than the class IV analysis (-s-yti-ti,-d-yti-ti, etc.). The origin of this formation is unclear; in some verbs of this class-y- may originate in the suffix '-(e)i- (perhaps related to the class IV present suffix-ya-), which has been secondarily reinterpreted as part of the root. I, The type sydti: two approaches The Vedic present _s(i)ya_ti RV + 'bind ' and four more presents of the same phonological structure (ch!iJya_ti A V1x + 'cut [the skin]',1 _dya_tilte YS + 'distribute, divide', _d(i)ya_1i RV 1x + 'bind', §ya_ti RV1x + 'sharpen'; hereafter referred to as Cyali presents) derived from the Ca roots (sa, cM, etc.) are one of the most obscure morphological formations in the Vedic system of present types. This type is, no doubt, inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian, which can be proved by the A vestan cognates of _s(i)ya_ti 'bind', 2 and, possibly, _dyaJilte 'distribute, divide,3 and-d(i)ya-ti 'bind'. 4 Parallels with this type can also be found outside Indo-Iranian, in Anatolian, cf