Re: Strong/weak verbs

caeruleancentaur wrote:
>> Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
>
>> I've been thinking long and detailed through my German studies from
>> many years ago. Weak German verbs add -te for past tense and ge- + -te
>> for the past participle. Strong verbs change by ablaut. I cannot think
>> of any verbs which change by ablaut and used the weak verb
>> prefix/postfix. Is there such a thing? Would such a pattern exist in
>> any other natlangs?
>
> Does bringen/brachte/gebracht qualify?
No, it's a weak verb, with (a) nasal raising in the infinitive and (b) a
voiceless consonant causing devoicing causing fricativisation causing
pre-fricative nasal loss in the past forms

  bhrang-on- >                       brIN-@n
  bhrang-t-  > brank-t- > branx-t- > bra:x-t-

English bring:brought (think:thought, teach:taught < *doig-) is directly
comparable, except that we of course had diphthongisation, fricative
loss and monophthongisation.

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Tristan.