Re: [tied] Latin Perfect (was Re: Reasons)

From: petegray
Message: 34639
Date: 2004-10-13

> but I don't know
> how early Latin got rid of reduplicated forms.

The reduplication often survives in compounds, but is lost in the simplex,
e.g. tuli ~ rettuli. Reduplicated forms pop up in earlier Latin and in
Oscan. So it's clear that Latin did have more than we know from the
classical language.

> h1e-h1o'd-e would create long e if h1 colors o.

It doesn't.

Peter