Voi is the root of a verb which has a preterit in voita 'he was old.'
Its preterit is saiguitta and its gerund in Do is saiguitte.
The present tense of each of them is in origin a preterit, in function a present.
In life, as in (that for him more truly actual thing) literature, it was always the preterit that enthralled him.
I go come' means 'I shall go'; or, to mention the preterit, 'I go earlier' means 'I went.'
We have also atlaça, to combat or be in agony; it means likewise to hurl or dart from the water, and in the preterit makes atlaz.
The verbal forms in-ara and-iera were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative.
In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists.
Our verbs are observed by Dr. Wallis to be irregular only in the formation of the preterit, and its participle.
Its preterit is tonda, its gerund in Do is tonde, and its negative root is tomazu.
