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Re: OT: multiroot verbs, was: sorta OT: cases: please help...

From:Elliott Lash <al260@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 7:38
aniye Anton:
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> 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>. >
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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Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>