Re: [tied] Perfect, Latin 1st conj, Tocharian pret. I

>It seems to me the Tocharian preterite is closer to the Latin
>supposed abbreviated forms that to the 'proper' long forms.
>Perhaps the 'abbreviated forms' are the original ones in Latin?

The abbreviated forms can be attested from pre-classical Latin, but:
(a) the contexts provide at least a rhythmic reason for a preference for
the shorter form
(b) the contraction involved is so understandable, and so well attested in
other words, and so clearly phonetically conditioned (e.g. the preference
for loss of -v- between similar vowels) that there is no real reason to
doubt it in Latin.

Peter