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===Verbal endings=== The Indo-European third person verbal ending system seems to be evident, though the exact meaning of many verbs remains unclear: primary singular active *'''-ti''' in {{lang|xce|ambitise-ti}} (Botorrita I, A.5), '(that someone) builds around > encloses' from *h₂m̥b<sup>h</sup>i-dʰingʰ-s-e-ti, and {{lang|xce|auzeti}}, secondary *'''-t''' > /θ/ written <z> in {{lang|xce|terbere-z}} (SP.02.08, B-4) and perhaps {{lang|xce|kombalke-z}}; primary plural active *-'''nti''' in {{lang|xce|ara-nti}} (Z.09.24, A-4) and {{lang|xce|zizonti}} "they sow" (or perhaps "they give" with assimilation of the initial do the medial <z>),<ref name="ffzg_EDPC-Addenda">Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s ''Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic'' (Brill, Leiden 2009) Zagreb, December 2011, p.10. https://mudrac.ffzg.hr/~rmatasov/EDPC-Addenda%20et%20corrigenda.pdf</ref> secondary *'''-nt''' perhaps in ''{{lang|xce|atibio-n}}'' (Z.09.24, A-5), middle voice *-'''nto''' in {{lang|xce|auzanto}} (Z.09.03, 01) and perhaps ''{{lang|xce|esianto}}'' (SP.02.08 A-2).<ref name="Avdintvm">Jordán Cólera, Carlos. "''Avdintvm'', una nueva forma verbal en celtibérico y sus posibles relaciones paradigmáticas (auzeti, auzanto, auz, auzimei, auzares...)" Universidad Complutense de Madrid. ''Cuadernos de filología clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos'', 2015-05, Vol.25 (25), pp.11-23</ref> A third person imperative '''*-tо̄d''' > ''-tuz'' perhaps is seen in {{lang|xce|da-tuz}} "he must give" (Bronze plaque of Torrijo del Campo), {{lang|xce|usabituz}}, {{lang|xce|bize-tuz}} (Botorrita I A.5) and {{lang|xce|dinbituz}} 'he must build' < *dʰingʰ-bī-tōd. A possible third person singular subjunctive '''-a-ti''' may be {{lang|xce|asekati}}, and another in '''-e-ti''' may be seen in ''auzeti'' < *''aw-d<sup>h</sup>h<sub>1</sub>-e-ti'' "he may bestow."<ref name="Avdintvm"/> From the same root, we may have a truncated form of an athematic active third person singular aorist if ''auz'' is from *''auzaz'' < *''aw-d<sup>h</sup> h<sub>1</sub>''-'''t'''.<ref name="Avdintvm"/> Also from the same root, an example of the genitive plural of the present active participle ending -'''nt-om''' may be found on the [[Novallas bronze tablet]] in ''audintum'' < ''*awd<sup>h</sup>eh<sub>1</sub>-nt-ōm.''<ref name="Avdintvm"/> Possible infinitive form '''-u-nei''' perhaps from *'''-mn-ei''' may be seen in {{lang|xce|ambi-tinko-unei}} (Botorrita I A.5), and in {{lang|xce|ta-unei}} ‘to give’,<ref name="ffzg_EDPC-Addenda"/><ref name="10.36707_palaeohispanica.v0i20.395"/> a reduplicated infinitive form in ''ti-za-unei'' if from *''d<sup>h</sup>i-d<sup>h</sup>h<sub>1</sub>-mn-ei'' "to place."<ref>Prosper, Blanca María. "Some Thoughts on the Gaulish Result of Common Celtic ''-mn-'' in Galatian" ''Celtic Studies'' 3. 2008. pp. 189-199, p. 190</ref>
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