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here is no undoubted perfect or reduplicate form. The form _moved_ corresponds in meaning not with [Greek: tetupha] and _momordi_, but with [Greek: etupsa] and _vixi_. Its sense is that of [Greek: etupsa], and not that of [Greek: tetupha]. The notion given by [Greek: tetupha] we express by the circumlocution _I have beaten_. We have no such form as _bebeat_ or _memove_. In the Moeso-Gothic, however, there was a true reduplicate form; in other words, a perfect tense as well as an aorist. It is by the possession of this form that the verbs of the first six conjugations are characterized. _Moeso-Gothic._ _Moeso-Gothic._ _English._ _English._ 1st. Faltha, _I fold_ F['a]ifalth, _I have folded_, or _I folded_. Halda, _I feed_ H['a]ihald, _I have fed_, or _I fed_. Haha, _I hang_ H['a]ihah, _I have hanged_, or _I hanged_. 2nd. H['a]ita, _I call_ H['a]ih['a]it, _I have called_, or _I called_. L['a]ika, _I play_ L['a]il['a]ik, _I have played_, or _I played_. 3rd. Hl['a]upa, _I run_ Hl['a]il['a]up _I have run_, or _I ran_. 4th. Sl[^e]pa, _I sleep_ S['a]izl[^e]p, _I have slept_, or _I slept_. 5th. L['a]ia, _I laugh_ L['a]il[^o], _I have laughed_, or _I laught_. S['a]ija, _I sow_ S['a]is[^o], _I have sown_, or _I sowed_. 6th. Gr[^e]ta, _I weep_ G['a]igr[^o]t, _I have wept_, or _I wept_. T['e]ka, _I touch_ T['a]it[^o]k, _I have touched_, or _I touched_. In Moeso-Gothic, as in Latin, the perfect forms have, besides their own, an aorist sense, and _vice vers[^a]_. In Moeso-Gothic, as in Latin, few (if any) words are found in both forms. In Moeso-Gothic, as in Latin, the two forms are dealt with as a single tense; _l['a]il[^o]_ being called the praeterite of _l['a]ia_, and _sv[^o]
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