Re: Another pesky verbal -d-

On 2008-03-24 13:17, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> > Nice. But I was wondering about 'descendidit' There's a 'de' too many.
> > Or is it *skan-do:, -dedi: ?
>
> But at what level? Why isn't it that just a hypercorrection based on
> other compounds of 'dare'? (I mean in such synchronic understanding
> as there was at the time.)

In Vulgar and Mediaeval Latin more such "reduplications" were formed
((re)spondidit, prendidit). The Class. perf. of <ascendo:> is always
<ascendi:>, as far as I'm aware. The "one -di- too many" perfects are
rather obviously analogical after <vendidi:t>. Note that <spondeo:>, in
particular, can't have anything to do with <do:/dedi:/datum>.

Piotr