Note 200 — Chapter IV · PHONOLOGY AND SEMATOLOGY. (continued 2)

The termination of the participles of German weak verbs, such as the Goth. tami-da (“domitus”), answers to the Vedic dami-tás (like the Greek κλυτός) where the accent is oxytone. Verner sums up his conclusions as follows: (1) The original accentuation was preserved in Teutonic even after the introduction of those changes of sound characteristic of the Teutonic branch of the Aryan family; (2) the accent, however, was no longer purely tonic, it had become also an accent of stress; (3) the exceptional representation of an Aryan k, t, and p at the beginning of a syllable by a Teutonic g, d, b is due to the original accentuation of the words in which it occurs; and (4) this is also the case with z or r in the place of s.