Linguistic analysis reveals verb form discrepancies in Gothic, suggesting historical phonetic changes.
The infinitive form of this verb is standan. The stem of the verb must therefore have been *stađ-. Accordingly the preterite singular form stōþ must represent an earlier *stōđ ; hence we should have expected a preterite plural form *stōdum(= *stōđum) instead of stōþum.
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Albert Morey Sturtevant (1928) studied this question.
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