Re: Another pesky verbal -d-

From: tgpedersen
Message: 55856
Date: 2008-03-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> [Reposting because I'd mangled the previous version! Sorry.]
>
> > Nice. But I was wondering about 'descendidit' There's a 'de' too
> > many.
> > Or is it *skan-do:, -dedi: ?
>
> But at what level? Why isn't it that just a hypercorrection based
> on other compounds of 'dare'? (I mean in such synchronic
> understanding as there was at the time.)

Isn't it? It was a question. That proposal is as good as any I've seen
so far (also the first, actually). Are there others? LIV doesn't
mention those forms.


Torsten