Hence it is that all the transposed praeterites in the Gothic tongues were, before they took the present sense, not weak, but strong. The word in question, _mind_ (from whence _minded_), is only an apparent exception to this statement. Now the words _shall_, _can_, _owe_ (whence _aught_), _dare_, _may_, _man_ (of the Anglo-Saxon _geman_, the origin of _mind_), are, (irrespective of their other peculiarities), for certain etymological reasons, looked upon as praeterite forms with a present sense. And the words _should_, _could_, _aught_, _dared_ (or _durst_), _must_, _wist_, _might_, _mind_, are, for certain etymological reasons, looked upon as secondary praeterites. This fact alters our view of the form _minded_. Instead of being a secondary praeterite, it is a tertiary one. _Geman_ (the apparent present) being dealt with as a strong praeterite with a present sense, _mind_ (from the Anglo-Saxon _gemunde_) is the secondary praeterite, and _minded_ (from the English _mind_) is a tertiary praeterite. To analyse the word, the {327} praeterite is first formed by the vowel _a_, then by the addition of _-d_, and, thirdly, by the termination _-ed_; _man_, _mind_, _minded_. The proof of this we collect from the second persons singular, Moeso-Gothic. The second singular praeterite of the strong class is _-t_; of the weak class, _-es_; of the present, both weak and strong, _-s_. Now the second singular of the words in point is _skal-t_, _kan-t_, _['a]ih-t_, _dar-t?_ _mag-t_, _man-t_, respectively.--Deutsche Grammatik, i. 852. Besides this, in Anglo-Saxon, the plural forms are those of the strong praeterites. See Rask, p. 79. _Yode._--The obsolete praeterite of _go_, now replaced by _went_, the praeterite of _wend_. Regular, except that the initial _g_ has become _y_. * * * * * {328} CHAPTER XXV. ON CONJUGATION. s. 383. The current statement respecting verbs like _sing_ and _fall_, &c., is that they are irregular. How far this is the case may be seen from a review of the twelve classes in Moeso-Gothic, where the change of the vowel is subject to fewer irregularities than elsewhere. In the first six conjugations the praeterite is replaced by a perfect tense. Consequently, there is a reduplication. Of these the fifth and sixth superadd to the reduplication a change of the vowel. _Present._ _Past.[55]_ _Past Participle._ _Sing._ _Plural._