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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 46940
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.

If so, why not *par(abol)áw-sti -> **parlósti?


Torsten