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Re: Insane Question

From:bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>
Date:Sunday, January 26, 2003, 20:13
 --- Tristan <kesuari@...> wrote: > > >
> -ion is another nominaliser, this time from Latin. > -atus was the Latin > past-participle suffix (like English -ed or > sometimes -(e)n), and for > some reason, when verbs were borrowed from Latin, we > tended to take an > anglicised form of the past participle as our root. > It's just the suffix > that gets added...
this comes from the latin formation of intensitive verbs, which usually get the a- paradigm added to a root identical to the past participle, so |habeo habere| you get |habito habitare| and from from |no nare| you get |nato natare|. these intensitive forms then became the usual forms in vulgar latin and its derivatives. so -ation words are the -ion- endings of intensitive forms. of course you then get secondary formations, which is why we have words like habitation |habi-ta-t-ion| and french natation |na-ta-t-ion| bn ===== bnathyuw | landan | arR stamp the sunshine out | angelfish your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com