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Type:	inflectional
Function:	preterite
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	-/t/
From PIE:	*-t
Attestation:	akitu, kalite, karite, karnitu, karnitus

Commentary

PIE 3^rd person singular secondary ending, emerges as marker of the weak t-preterite in Continental Celtic; see Schmidt 1986b: 177 f. and Eska 1990, and the word pages for the individual formations.

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.