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One other -uere verb has survived in Iberia, and that is (at)tribuere.
Here OSp. has (a)trovo, p.p. atrevudo, and OPtg. atrevudo. Evidently
tribuere, like other verbs, lost its u, but perhaps it kept it in the perfect
because of the support of habui.
9. The -mere verbs. Here we have the group fremere, gemere, tremere,
vomere, to which we may add the -ēre verb timēre, and in part premere,
redimere; sumere may also have survived in Sp., Ptg. sumir. The first five
have classical perfects in -ui and p.ps. in -ĭtus (including late tremitus,
timitus). The only variants found in late Latin by Dardel are (e)vomit,
vomeris, vomerit. With regard to the development of premere and
redimere, the only relevant item is the occurrence of direm(p)si beside
diremi, suggesting the origin of *premsi and *redemsi, required by
Romance. In this class Rumanian has gemui, temui, vomui and scremui
from screme, which goes back ultimately to exprimere. Italian has only
-ei/-etti perfects and -uto p.ps. for all except redimere, which has redensi,
p.p. redento (cpds. in -pressi, -presso are learned). In later Old French the
-si perfect and -tu p.p. seem to be the usual, so criens, crient (with the
vowel of the present and cr- for tr-), giens (?), gient, priens, prient, raiens,
raient, subst. friente (God., s.v. frainte), or similar forms with the stem
vowels e or ei (taken from the verbs in -eindre, which affected this class in
general, producing infs. like geindre, preindre); however, cremui and
cremut are also usual (perhaps more usual) in the old language, and cremi
is also found. In Provençal there is a great mixture; premer has prems, p.p.
prems/premut/premit, cremer (rare) has p.p. crems/tremps and cremuz (Gir.
de R.), temer has tems, p.p. tems (?)/temsut/temut (Pell., Prov.), and
rezemer has rezems or rezemei, p.p. rezems/rezemt/rezemut. Gascon has
temon, p.p. temut. Catalan has premí, -mut, temí, -mut, tremí, -mut, remí,
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