Re: "two be"

Thank you so much! I wanted to use this in Kench&Co, but was not sure
about the details. The quote you pointed to will help a lot!


On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:52:48 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:

>Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>
>> Interesting. I've read somewhere that the usage of the regular present
>> of _beon_ and the present derived from *es- (_eom_, _ert_, _is_) differed
>> in Old English, but I've never understood the exact difference... Any
>> pointers?
>
>In a footnote to his talk "English and Welsh", JRRT sums up the
>b-forms as having either *future* or *consuetudinal* use, noting
>that Welsh behaves similarly, but the related Germanic languages
>do not.  The relevant excerpts:
>
>http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9903B&L=conlang&P=R7797
>
>Note that the annoying "=F0" is the eth.
>
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