-ū (3sg.)

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Type:	inflectional
Function:	3rd person singular past
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	-/ū/
Attestation:	akitu, ieureu, karnitu, karnitus, tetu

Commentary

Reanalysed as 3^rd person singular past ending in inherited 3^rd person singular reduplicated perfects from roots of the shape *CeH- → *Ce-CóH-e > CeCū (cf. tetu); see Eska 1990b: 110. The logic underlying the distribution of inherited -e and -ū in Continental Celtic is not evident.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Eska 2009b	Joseph Francis Eska, "Remarks on the 3. plural preterite in -us in Continental Celtic", Die Sprache 47,1 (2007–2008 [2009]), 108–119.