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Re: OT: multiroot verbs, was: sorta OT: cases: please help...

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 13:43
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:38:28 EST > From: Elliott Lash <AL260@...> > > 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