Renfrew's Celtic Scenario

petegray petegray at btinternet.com
Sat Mar 18 10:09:39 UTC 2000


Stanley said:

> there are just enough irregular
> verbs with remnants of the 'aorist' in Germanic languages to require its
> prior existence in some predecessor of Proto-Germanic.  (I seem to remember
> even having run across a handful of s-aorists).

I would be interested in examples, if you can remember them.   In
particular, I have read in JIE the assertion that there is no s aorist in
Germanic, so counter-examples would be fun.

Thanks
Peter



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