From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 44765
Date: 2006-05-29
>No contraction in 3rd person is exactly what we have in Croatian:I'm not sure I understand this completely. The ^ is the
>
>pi^ta:m, pi^ta:s^, pi^ta:, pi^ta:mo, pi^ta:te, pítaju:
>
>(notice the rising accent and short -a- in the 3rd person plural). In Old
>Croatian, I guess there was also pitaju (the accent would be *pítaju),
>although I'm not sure it's attested, but it was soon levelled to -a:m by
>the analogy to -a:s^ etc.