Re: THEORY: irregular conlangs

John Cowan wrote:

>Suppletion is often the result of sound-change making two
>forms collapse together so that a suppletive form is needed,
>though I don't know the specifics with "go, went" ("wend",
>the suppleting verb, has grown a new preterite "wended").
>Scots preserves (or borrows from Norse?) the preterite "gang".
Could be either.  The preterite of "go" was "gang" in both
Old English and Old Norse, I believe.

Matt.