Draw, correction

> Recall that the Germanic class VI strong verbs have PIE (supposedly)
> -a-/-o:-/-o:-/-a- where more predictable Germanic verbs (Class I -
> III) have PIE -e-/-o-/zero/zero.
> The Germanic verb 'dragan' is a class VI verb. As claimed above, we
> have reason to suspect it is a Venetic verb. We also have reason to
> suspect that Venetic (or Old Europen) was a non-ablauting
> a-language, so that a verb in place of the PIE -e-/-o-/zero/zero
> pattern would have -a-/-a-/-a-/-a-. If we assume it had Brugmann
> lengthening in the 3sg perf., and generalized that to all persons
> and [correction] numbers [/correction], it would have
> -a-/-a:-/-a:-/-a-. And if that was loaned into Germanic before that
> had a: > o: (which must have happened when e: > a:, cf Swe:w- >
> Swa:w-), then it would have the pattern -a-/-o:-/-o:-/-a-, which is
> exactly Germanic class VI.
> If that is the case, all of class VI

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> are loans from Venetic.

Torsten