Indo-European *es-

Muke wrote: "Well, for Indo-European languages, the main verb was *es-"

... actually, it was *Hs; the H surfaced as /e/ in late Common IE in certain
clusters, but as [zero] in others, hence the distinction in, say, Latin
between 'est' and 'sunt', both of which come from *Hs- plus ending.

For those unfamiliar, the H prolly represented glottals what had epithetic
vowels inserted for purpose of pronunciation; when the glottals were lost,
the vowels remained.

banAnna
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12x
GH d--: s+:- a26 C+ W++ w PS++ PE-
Y+ t+ 5+ X+ R tv+ b++++ e++ h-- r*
y+x BUFFY+++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------