Re: "Strong Verb/Ablauted Verb" Society?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:57:19AM +0000, Bryan Parry wrote:
> Nor do I speak German, but those links seem very
> useful. Cheers muchly.

I particularly like the three sets of suggestions for "behave":

1. behave/behove/behiven
2. behave/behad/behad
3. behave/washave/beenhave

#3 seems inconsistent, though. The present tense should match:

I amhave                We arehave
You arehave             You arehave
He/she/it ishave        They arehave

And of course the 3p sg pres in #2 should be "behas".  :)

Etymologically, is "behave" derived from either "be" or "have"?

Other suggestions: "to run" should become "to rin", with "run" limited
to the past participle role (rin, ran, run), thus placing it into the
"begin" class.  Analogously:

pin, pan, pun
sin, san, sun
skin, skan, skun
spin, span, spun
tin, tan, tun
win, wan, wun

It gets even more fun if we allow diphthongs:

join, joan, joun

But I think that's getting carried away.

:)

-Marcos

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