-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 3rd person singular past ending in inherited 3rd person singular reduplicated perfects from roots of the shape *CeH- → *Ce-CóH-e > CeCū (cf. tetu); see Eska 2009b: 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.