-e

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Type:	inflectional
Function:	3rd person singular past
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	-/e/
From PIE:	*-e
Attestation:	kalite, karite, tośokote

Commentary

PIE 3^rd person singular perfect/stative ending, in Continental Celtic in inherited perfects as well as secondary in weak t-preterites; the logic underlying the distribution of -e and -ū is not evident. See Schmidt 1986b: 177 f., Eska 1990.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Eska 1990	Joseph F. Eska, "The so-called weak or dental preterite in Continental Celtic, Watkins' law, and related matters", Historische Sprachforschung 103 (1990), 81–91.