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Suppletory forms

From:Pablo Flores <fflores@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 16, 1999, 23:10
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.


--Pablo Flores

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