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Re: LANGUAGE LAWS

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, October 17, 1998, 23:36
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) -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang ICQ: 18656696 AOL: NikTailor