Re: Verb Structure

Roger Mills skrev:

> IIRC it was the supine (ablative -tu:, the only two cases it had); I too
> have forgotten its use-- maybe purpose, '...for X-ing'? The abl. pops up in
> things like "mirabile dictu".
Interestingly the Latin supine accustive corresponds to
the classical Sanskrit infinitive in -tum.  Vedic had
a number of "infinitive" formations -- more or less
fully declined verbal nouns, but all of those except
the -tum form fell off in classical Sanskrit.

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/BP 8^)>
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    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

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