The final -tz was reduced, in some of the principal dialects, to -s (§ 64): cantás, sezęs, partęs. In other dialects it was replaced very early by -t (§ 64): auiát, avęt, passát, podęt; so partirẹt, etc.
1. In _faitz_ ＜ _facĭtis_ the old accentuation apparently survives.
169. In the third person plural _-ant_, _-ent_, _-unt_ gave respectively -an -ant, -en, -on -o (§ 83, Nt): _amant_ ＞ áman ámant, _audiant_ ＞ áuian áuiant; _valent_ ＞ válen, _ament_ ＞ ámen; _vēndunt_ ＞ vẹndon vẹndo. In Languedoc -an was replaced by -on or -o in the 13th century; in other regions, later: ámon, chanto ls, coménso l. The _Boeci_ has -en for -an: amen, monten. In Gascony and some of the Limousin territory -en partially displaced -on (floríssen, párten, vẹnden), elsewhere -on or -o displaced -en (válon).
170. In the first conjugation _-abam_ regularly gave _-ava_. In the second, through the analogy of _aβéa_ ＜ _habēbam_ (§ 153), _-ēbam_ came to be replaced, in southern Gaul, by _-éa_, which regularly changed to _-ía_ (§ 26). In the third, _-iēbam_ regularly became _-ēbam_ (§ 40, 1); and this and original _-ēbam_ were replaced by the _-éa_ ＞ _-ía_ of the second conjugation. In the fourth, _-ībam_, which had in the accented syllable the characteristic vowel of the conjugation, crowded out _-iēbam_; _-ībam_ then lost its β through the analogy of the second and third conjugations. We have, then, in Provençal, only two sets of endings: _-áva_, etc., in the first conjugation; _-ía_, etc., in the second, third, and fourth.
amáva vezía fazía partía amávas vezías fazías partías amáva vezía fazía partía amavám veziám faziám partiám amavátz veziátz faziátz partiátz amávan vezían fazían partían
1. In poetry _ía_ is sometimes counted as one syllable: _avi͡an_, _devi͡an_.
2. For some subsequent developments of western dialects, see Meyer-Lübke, _Gram._, II, p. 326.
3. For the personal endings, see §§ 164-169.
4. _Esser_ has: ęra, ęras, ęra, erám, erátz erás, ęran ęron ęro.
PRETERIT, OLD CONDITIONAL, AND IMPERFECT SUBJUNCTIVE.
171. These parts are all formed from the same stem, that of the Latin perfect: cf. § 141, (2). Ex.: cantęi, cantęra, cantęs; vendęi, vendęra, vendęs; partí, partíra, partís; vi, vira, vis; dẹc, dẹgra, deguẹs.