[123] The loss of -s is not confined to the Provençal territory: it occurs also in western France, Catalonia, and the Engadine.
[124] Cf. the reduction of habēbam to aβea: § [153].
[125] Tenér tenír really belongs to the second conjugation.
[126] According to Raimon Vidal, this is the regular ending of the 3d pers. sg. of the fourth conjugation.
[127] In nasquec the ui ending occurs twice.
[128] Beside parẹc, coming perhaps from a V. L. ✱parēvit ✱parēvuit.
[129] All verbs in -ndĕre took the perfect in -sī: ascos, defes, pris, respos, etc. Lĕgĕre took ✱lĕxī ＞ leis through the analogy of the p. p. lĕctum. So fĭngĕre took ✱fĭxī ＞ feis through fĭctum; frangĕre, pĭngĕre, tangĕre did likewise (frais, peis, tais); and in Provençal cénher ＜ cĭngĕre, esténher ＜ exstĭnguĕre, plánher ＜ plangĕre followed the example of these (ceis, esteis, plais): hence all verbs in -nher have the preterit in -s.
[130] See Zs., XXVIII, 97.
[131] Gram., II, p. 357.
[132] Tĕnuī and vēnī influenced each other.