I am interested in how Proto-Indo-Europrean *dō- (to give) with reduplication has evolved in as many Indo-European languages as possible. For example, Latin uses the reduplicated ded- to form perfect conjugations, whereas for Latvian, present tense is the domain for the reduplicated dod-.
I have already confirmed that there is no Romance language whose cognate for Latin dare (to give) resorts to reduplication for conjugation. Could I prevail upon the fellow WRians who speak Indo-Iranian, Slavic or Germanic languages where reduplication is used in conjugation of the verb that descend from PIE *dō- to ask to provide with representative stems for the verb?
For the above mentioned two languages, the sample stems would be as follows.
Latin:
1st sg. present; do
1st sg. perfect; dedi
Latvian:
infinitive; dot
1st sg. present; dodu
1st sg. past; devu
I have already confirmed that there is no Romance language whose cognate for Latin dare (to give) resorts to reduplication for conjugation. Could I prevail upon the fellow WRians who speak Indo-Iranian, Slavic or Germanic languages where reduplication is used in conjugation of the verb that descend from PIE *dō- to ask to provide with representative stems for the verb?
For the above mentioned two languages, the sample stems would be as follows.
Latin:
1st sg. present; do
1st sg. perfect; dedi
Latvian:
infinitive; dot
1st sg. present; dodu
1st sg. past; devu