§343] Verbs 165 a. Observe the elision of the vowel in nist = ni ist, Jmtist «-bata ist, karist = kara ist. 3. Beside sijum, sijub there also occur siam, siub, which points to a weak articulation of the intervocalic -j·. The original forms of the pres. indie, were: Sing. *ēsmi (Skr. ásmi), *ási beside *6ssi (Skr. ási, Homer Ισσΐ), *6sti (Skr. ásti, Gr. ίστί); dual *swás (Skr. svás), *stes (Skr. sthás); PI. *smás (Skr. smás), *ste (Skr. sthá), *senti (Skr. sánti). Beside the accented there also were unaccented forms just as in the pronouns (§ 259). *6smi regularly became im through the intermediate stages *izml, *immi, *imm. is from *isi, *izi; ist from *isti; sind from *sinđi. siju, sijum, sijuþ with sij- from the pres. subjunctive and the endings of the pret. of strong verbs (§ 292), cp. the same endings in O.Icel. erum, vie are, eruþ, eru (OE. earon); OHG. bir-um, bir-ut; OE. sin-don, OS. sinđun. The original forms of the pres. subjunctive were: Sing. *s(i]jem (Skr. syám), *s(iljes (Skr. syás), *s(i)jet (Skr. syāt); PL *sīme, *sít6, *sijent, which would have become in Gothic *sija, *sijēs, *sija; *seima (OHG. Sim), *seiþ (OHG. sit), *sein (OHG. OS. sin). In Gothic the original sij'of the singular was extended to the plural and then the whole tense was remodelled after the analogy of the pres. subjunctive of strong verbs (§ 288).
		2. The Verb ' will'. § 343. The present tense of this verb was originally an optative (subjunctive) form of a verb in ·πιί, which already in prim. Germanic came to be used indicatively. To this was formed in Gothic a new infinitive, present participle, and weak preterite. The endings of the present are those of the pret. subjunctive (§ 2Θ3). The existing forms are:—