Re: CHAT: History of «ir»

> [snip]
>
> > Well, I think that the forms <vasi> and <vasum>,
> if
> > not technically attested for the simple verb, are
> for
> > compounds:
> >    invado, invadere, invasi, invasum
> >    evado, evadere, evasi, evasum
>
> Oh yes, so they are - and
> pervado, pervadere, pervasi, pervasum
>
> I notice also that _evadi_ is attested as well as
> _evasi_ as the perfect
> of _evadere_.
>
> These compounds are of course literary; AFAIK they
> didn't survive in
> Vulgar Latin. The hesitation in the perfect form of
> _evadere_ might
> suggest the perfect itself was a literary formation.
> Interesting.
>
They are attested in French, however at least one may
be some sort of borrowing:

1) s'evader
  (clearly a borrowing, -d- is still present, and the
infinitive ending is as if it is from *evadare)
2) envahir
   (Not so clearly a borrowing, it seems to show the
confusion of infinitive endings that occured in Old
French between -re (-ere), -oir (-e:re) and -ir (-ire)
verbs. Also, the -d- is replaced by a hiatus,
represented by -h-)

   -elliott







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