§ 297. In the _present_ English there is no undoubted perfect or reduplicate form. The form _moved_ corresponds in meaning not with τέτυφα and _momordi_, but with ἔτυψα and _vixi_. Its sense is that of ἔτυψα, and not that of τέτυφα. The notion given by τέτυφα we express by the circumlocution _I have beaten_. We have no such form as _bebeat_ or _memove_. In the Mœso-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. _Mœso-Gothic._ _Mœso-Gothic._ _English._ _English._ 1st. Falþa, _I fold_ Fáifalþ, _I have folded_, or _I folded_. Halda, _I feed_ Háihald, _I have fed_, or _I fed_. Haha, _I hang_ Háihah, _I have hanged_, or _I hanged_. 2nd. Háita, _I call_ Háiháit, _I have called_, or _I called_. Láika, _I play_ Láiláik, _I have played_, or _I played_. 3rd. Hláupa, _I run_ Hláiláup _I have run_, or _I ran_. 4th. Slêpa, _I sleep_ Sáizlêp, _I have slept_, or _I slept_. 5th. Láia, _I laugh_ Láilô, _I have laughed_, or _I laught_. Sáija, _I sow_ Sáisô, _I have sown_, or _I sowed_. 6th. Grêta, _I weep_ Gáigrôt, _I have wept_, or _I wept_. Téka, _I touch_ Táitôk, _I have touched_, or _I touched_. In Mœso-Gothic, as in Latin, the perfect forms have, besides their own, an aorist sense, and _vice versâ_. In Mœso-Gothic, as in Latin, few (if any) words are found in both forms. In Mœso-Gothic, as in Latin, the two forms are dealt with as a single tense; _láilô_ being called the præterite of _láia_, and _svôr_ the præterite of _svara_. The true view, however, is that in Mœso-Gothic, as in Latin, there are two past tenses, each having a certain latitude of meaning, and each, in certain words, replacing the other. The reduplicate form, in other words, the perfect tense, is current in none of the Gothic languages except the Mœso-Gothic. A trace of it is said to be found in the Anglo-Saxon of the seventh century in the word _heht_, which is considered to be _hê-ht_, the Mœso-Gothic _háiháit_, _vocavi_. _Did_ from _do_ is also considered to be a reduplicate form.