Re: Suppletory forms

Pablo Flores wrote:

> Just before now I was working on my Ciravesu lexicon,
> which uses some Ablaut, and the issue of changing
> stems brought something to my attention: suppletory
> forms (is that the term?). I don't have anything of
> that in my conlangs and I'm sure no one in the list
> mentioned it either. I figured out it'd be nice to
> have some suppletory forms (like "went" for "go" in
> English), but I don't have a clue where they should
> come from. Any comments will be appreciated.
Like voseo (Rioplatence and other dialects of Spanish) "and=E1" as
imperative of "ir".  If in some future "andar" becomes less and less
used would eventually disapear...  Let's imagine that Spanish language
loses it identity and the several dialects would become different
languages, with revised orthographies and like... some body will
eventually ask where that such irregular verb comes from:

Indicative: (<y> =3D /S/, <j> =3D /x/)
  yo boi, boj and=E1j, el ba, nosotroj bamoj, ujtedej/eyoj ban
  yo fui, boj fuijte, el fue, nosotroj fuimoj, ujtedej/eyoj fueron
  yo iba, boj ibaj, el iba, nosotroj ibamoj, ujtedej/eyoj iban
  yo ir=E9, boj ir=E1j, el ir=E1, nosotroj iremoj, ujtedej/eyoj ir=E1n

Imperative
 and=E1 boj, bayamoj nosotroj, bayan ujtedej

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> --Pablo Flores
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