[tied] Re: *-t-, put

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> So the pret. frawarðiða "ruined" is from frawarði-ðiðe: "ruined
> *does*", not "ruined did"?

No, it's the imperfect (without an augment, i.e. properly the
injunctive), the very form the language itself uses as the preterite
(originally only of the present aspect).

> Hm.

Good point.

Jens