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Re: CHAT: History of «ir»

From:Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 16:30
--- R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:

> Elliott Lash wrote: > > The Latin is: > > > > I. vado vadere vasi vasum (3rd conjugation) > > Are the perfect and supine actually attested? The > 'Lewis & Short' > dictionary gives only: vado, vadere. Thus according > to the dictionary it > existed only in 'present stem' (infectum) forms. If > there were a supine > one would expect it to be *vasum. But there would be > other possibilities > for the perfect. Are forms derived from *vasi > actually attested? > (Genuine question)
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 Perhaps that's where my source got the forms <vasi, vasum>. -Elliott ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433

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