Talk:πέσσω

peptō

@Erutuon I think it's more sensible to explain this as a late analogical formation. Since the consonant -p- appears in most of the forms, it would not be strange if speakers analysed this as the underlying consonant of the root, and therefore back-formed the present stem pept- from it, by analogy with other verbs from p-final roots. —CodeCat 20:59, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

That would make sense. It would be interesting to see if this happened in any other cases. — Eru·tuon 21:01, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

I looked through the PIE roots with final labiovelars, but this is the only one that has a ye-present in Greek. In Greek, you'd want to look for verbs ending in -ssō/-ttō (from -kʷy- or -gʷʰy-) or -zō (from -gʷy-). —CodeCat 21:10, 26 March 2016 (UTC)