Re: Regularized Inglish
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 1999, 3:18 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> I don't think the <-s> ever *was* an ending. The form comes from
> PIE *es-ti, the athematic ending IIRC, which makes the -s part of the
> root *es- "be" rather than an ending.
Ah, yeah, that's true. Even so, synchronically, I suspect most people
(unconciously) analyze the -s as being the same as the ending -s.
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