--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> ... the preterite plural pattern (fe:ng-), whatever its origin.
I can explain easily enough these "replace any vowel by long `e'"
forms in Latin perfects and Germanic preterites. In a reduplicated
form CeCV... the second occurrence of the consonant C disappears by
dissimilation and the vowels contract. Latin "fe:cit" = "he made" <
"fefaked", which is attested in a 7th century form from Praeneste and
therefore likeliest in not standard Roman Latin but the Praenestine
dialect of Latin.