Re: OT: multiroot verbs, was: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 7:38 |
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aniye Anton:
[Snippage]
> Another example of such cooperation is `go', in which
> English borrows the past tense of `wend'. (Why?) Romance >combines three Latin
> roots: <i>, <vad>, <ambula>.
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Presumably maybe perhaps, because Old English: `eode' didn't work out for speakers as the
language changed. (What a *GREAT* analyses that was...don't you think :-) )
And while where at it...where did `eode' come from and why was there never a past
tense built on `go'???
Elliott
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