Timeline for Origin of irregular ending "-ught" for past simple and participle
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| Apr 7, 2017 at 21:29 | vote | accept | Nicolás | ||
| Mar 4, 2015 at 5:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/572999484420055040 | ||
| Mar 4, 2015 at 3:32 | comment | added | Peter Shor | And work; wrought. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 3:19 | comment | added | John Lawler |
Note cognate verbs of some of these are irregular weak ("mixed") verbs in German: bringen, brachte, gebracht; denken, dachte, gedacht. It's easy to see the original /k/ or /g/ that decayed into /x/ through Grimm's Law, and then flew away completely in English speech with the loss of the [ɣ] allophone of /h/ (which is where all those wierd English GH spellings come from, btw).
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 3:04 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Alain The native English verb that catch displaced was latch, which is weak now, but had a strong past læhte in Old English and probably influenced the strong conjugation of catch. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 2:47 | comment | added | Alain Pannetier Φ | Catch → caught is a little bit different from the other strong verbs you cite. It actually comes from Old French chacier (Modern French chasser which also produced to chase). The past participle used to be catched but later evolved into caught for some reason. I can't see any influence of other verbs with the same ending: matched, patched, attached are all regular. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 2:26 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 2:04 | history | edited | Nicolás | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 1:43 | history | asked | Nicolás | CC BY-SA 3.0 |