Re: OT: multiroot verbs, was: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 13:43 |
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> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:38:28 EST
> From: Elliott Lash <AL260@...>
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> And while where at it...where did `eode' come from and why was there
> never a past tense built on `go'???
OE eode would be the weak preterite of a verb cognate to L eo, Gr
eimi, Skt ayam (perfect).
Gothic had the cognate iddja in the preterite, which took weak
preterite endings despite not looking like a weak preterite; I'm not
aware of a cognate in North Germanic, but it would have been something
like eggja.
What North Germanic does use is a strong past tense based on gangan,
e.g., Swedish gikk, (obsolete) plural gingo.
(E go itself is seemingly from gahan, like Scandinavian g