Re: [tied] Hittite preterites

> When the injunctive grew
> out of fashion, the augment became superfluous, so the short form with
> only secondary endings became unambiguously past. That is the case in
> Homeric Greek (where the augment is optional) and in Anatolian (where the
> augment is lost).

Do you have any evidence, Jens, for this assertion that the augment once
existed in Anatolian?

Peter