Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 19:39 |
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:16:07 +1100, Tristan Alexander McLeay
<anstouh@...> wrote:
>In English, it's because `to be' is a merger of three different verbs,
>_béan_,
_béon_, IIRC (PIE *bheu-). Full (more-less regular) paradigm of present,
also pres. subj. and p.pple.
>_weran_
_wesan_. Past: _wæs_, _wæst_, _wéren- (in Anglian dialects; standard Wessex
had long æ in the latter form; r :: s was an active alternation), also
past subj. Also an alternative p. pple: giwesen (IIRC)
>and something else that I've forgotten
From the PIE root *es-: the alternative present (with slightly different
meaning) _eom_, _is_, _eren_, etc. No other forms, IIRC.
Basilius
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