#  Indo-European: Kazuhiko Yoshida (Kyoto University) 

 



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 **May 2, 2016** 

 05:00PM - 06:30PM EDT 

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 **Boylston Hall 335**  



 

 



 

### Hittite *aušta* and *maušta*

**Abstract:** Jay Jasanoff (2003:178-8) proposes that the Hittite 3 sg. preterite *naiš* ‘led’ is derived from an aorist *\*nḗiH-s-t* in a PIE presigmatic paradigm, which replaced a PIE *h2e-* conjugation root aorist *\*nóiH-e*. On the other hand, *aušta* ‘saw’ and *maušta* ‘fell’ did not lose the final *\*-t*, but preserved it by attachment of a final prop vowel *a*. Crucial to this development was the synchronic reanalysis of the 3 sg. preterites *\*aušt* and *\*maušt* as *mi*-conjugation forms. However, inner Hittite evidence shows that the 3 sg. preterite ending of *ḫi*-verbs was originally *\*-s*, not *\*-s-t*. It is arguable that aušta and maušta acquired its final *-ta* /-t/ within the relatively late prehistory of Hittite.



 

 



 

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