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Araújo, Manuel, “o-Preterit in Gaulish”, wékwos: Revue d'études indo-européennes 4 (2019): 29–40.

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“o-Preterit in Gaulish”
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4
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29–40
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This paper builds on previous explanations of the Gaulish verb au̯u̯ot/αυουωτ – and its regional variations – attested in several inscriptions from modern France. In order to account for this obscure verb, I will examine comparative evidence, mostly data from the Insular node of the Celtic branch and from the Germanic branch, as well as with other Indo-European daughter-languages, in some instances. Ultimately, this article’s objective is to offer evidence for the existence of a different way of conjugating the preterit tense in Gaulish, which stems from the ablaut processes used to conjugate the preterit in Proto-Indo-European – a shift from the full-grade to the o-grade in the singular and to the zero-grade in the plural – somewhat similar to the ā-preterit developed by the ancestors of the Brythonic and Goidelic languages.
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Gaulish language
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Dennis Groenewegen, Pierre Faure
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