Let's take the obvious pair "vertere - вертеть". You don't need a lot of IQ to break them down in "verte + re" and "verte + ti". If our recent assumption is correct, then "verte + ti" = "turn + DO". That is, the semantic root of the verb plus the word "action", together they form an infinitive.
If so, then "verte + re" should be similar to "verte + DO". That is, "re" should also mean the word "action". Is there such a word in the Kartvelian languages?
There is such a thing: "reba" (reba). According to Chanturia, this is an archaic masdar, meaning "walking, going, leading". The root in it is "re". You will say that, say, "going" does not corresponds 100% to "doing". But the point is that Georgian masdars can end not only with "-deba" - "do(ing)", but, for example, with "-(s)vla" - "go(ing)". And there are many of them. If a person sees that a large number of infinitives end, say, in "-svla", then he may think that all infinitives should be like that.
Or, in the Proto-Latin language, infinitives also had other endings (in particular, corresponding to the word "doing"), but over time only "-re" remained.
For example, this is a clear opposition of two infinitive endings: danzare - dantzatu. In one of them, the ending of the infinitive is "re", and in the second - "-du". The first infinitive is Latin, the second is Basque.
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