Re: LANGUAGE LAWS

I wrote:
> as it still is in Spanish (where esse
> has become ser, and stare has become estar),
I just remembered, the infinitive "ser" comes from Latin _sedere_, to
sit, IIRC.  (Intervocalic -d- was always lost when Latin evolved to
Spanish - modern intervocalic d is either from voicing of -t-, for
instance -atus --> -ado, for from compound words, e.g., a dio's -->
adio's)

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