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The Origins of Pre-Baltic - Harvey E. Mayer |
 | | Otherwise, the tie between inactive and active verbs clearly displayed by -ks- metathesized from -sk- would have been instantly blurred destroying the purpose for creating the suffix -ks- which was to give verbs a marking reversed from that given by the active marker suffix -sk-. |
 | | Note the one-time probable *ei-sk- 'to seek', that is, to go to perceive', a verb made active by the suffix -sk- versus a probable *ei'-ks- 'to ride' which became *ie-ks- with metathesis of active suffix -sk- to inactive suffix -ks; metathesis and vrddhi of the root *ei- to *ie-. |
 | | Circumflex pitch was assigned to new vrddhi vowels in affixes where many circum-flexes tended to arise from contractions of stem and affix, usually suffix vowels (Lithuanian nešėte 'you carried' where unstressed -i- indicates it once had circumflex pitch). |
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