Re: English 2s. -t (was: Slavic *-os (*-om))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> > ... and the '-t' of Englsh 2nd sg. 'art', 'wast', 'wert',
> > which are supposed to be documented late in the history of that
> > language (thus coming from 'below'?).
>
> 'Late' = when? All the preterite-presents in my Old English

grammar

> have -t or -st for the 2s.
>

Unfortunately I forgot again where I read that (Skeat?).
BTW 'art', 'wast', 'wert' are not preterite-presents, and 'art' were
never even a preterite.

Torsten