Re: [tied] Re: The potentially non-stative nature of *es-?

But in this Germanic verb class the singular has a _short_ vowel; and in this particular case the original reduplicated plural was _not_ *CeCVD- but CeCD- (to wit, *se-sd- plus a stressed inflectional syllable).

Piotr

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--- In cybalist@......, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......> wrote: > Germanic preterites can only exceptionally be traced back to > reduplicated perfects. In particular, the PIE pattern > *se-sód-/*se-sd-' [sezd-] can hardly have produced OE saet/sae:ton. > ... If the verb root is CVD, I used to think that the "replace whatever by long `e'" -type Latin perfects and Germanic preterits plurals came from reduplicated forms CeCVD where the repeat of the initial consonant disappears by dissimilation, and the reduplication "e" lengthens by compensation or contraction.