Re: LANGUE NATURELLE: Les groupes des verbes en Français (Re: TECH: Official languages of the list)

MJR> Both from Latin "vendere", which was usually encountered in CL via its
MJR> passive form "venire".

IKP> Huh? Oh, you mean ve:ni:re (be sold), distinct from veni:re (come).

Right, sorry, should have noted the vowel quantity.

MJR> Classical Latin had four verb conjugations, which seem to have collapsed to
MJR> fewer in the Romance languages.

My mistake; it looks like that development was a Peninsular one, not
pan-western-Romance.  As you pointed out, French -er is not a merger of
Latin 1st and 2nd conjugation, but a continuation of the 1st, while
the 2nd conjugation became French -oir.  With exceptions where verbs
changed conjugations, of course.

-Marcos