Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Metius Fufetius

From: P&G
Message: 48155
Date: 2007-04-01

>*fufed, te hypothetical, third person singular of the perfect of the
>vrb 'to be' in Oscan ... is formally and semantically close to Latin fuit
>cf. inscriptional fuveit),

The inscriptional form fuueit is more probably an attempt to show the long
vowel in fu:it. This long vowel is attested also in Ennius (annals 377).

Peter