On Obscure Old Irish Preterite Forms (Темные формы древнеирландского бессуфиксального претерита)
Natalia O’Shea
Moscow State University
Abstract
We propose that firstly, at the time of the loss of the initial preconsonantal laryngeals at the early common Celtic level, reduplication was a completely active and productive way of inflection; secondly, the beginning of the root after the reduplication syllable was phonologically equated with anlaut; thirdly, forms with an initial prevocalic laryngeal could not be affected by the loss, since contractions of reduplication from roots of the HEC-type occurred much earlier, at the common Indo-European level.