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

From: P&G
Message: 46937
Date: 2007-01-13

>BTW, it seems strange to me that eg Italian in the perfect has
>parlai, parlasti, parlò
>where -i and -sti show preserved final vowel but no trace of Latin -it
>in the 3sg (and similarly in Spanish).

The process is -ávit > -aut > - ô with regular loss of final -t.

Peter