From: stlatos
Message: 68462
Date: 2012-01-31
>In PIE Ce-C = past; * vóyd.xa = I have seen > I know, * vevóyd.xa = I had seen > I knew. PIE had multiple tenses for perfect, imperfect, aorist, etc., most of which were lost in recorded IE; multiple retentions could be reclassified according to best fit if their category was lost (like vac- ávocam (aor) Skt;), the pluperfect > perfect for most, w some common retentions w/o the past-reduplication.
> W dniu 2012-01-31 21:39, dgkilday57 pisze:
>
> > But the other preteritive presents show no reduplication, and this
> > appears to be a conserved archaism, since OE <wa:t> corresponds to Lat.
> > <vi:di:>, Grk. <oida>, Skt. <veda>, all without reduplication.
>
> Well, unreduplicated (or dereduplicated) *woid-/*wid- is exceptional
> already at the PIE level.