Re: Verb Structure
| From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 8, 2006, 11:30 |
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>It's from Latin -tum according to Larry Trask. -du is the voiced
>version, used after voiced consonants.
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I know next to nothing about Latin... what I used to know I've
forgotten. What exactly did -tum mark? I'm guessing that, like the
dictionary forms of egin etc and verbs without the Latin borrowed
ending, it was a past, perfect and probably passive participle of
something similar... also, is -tum the origin of spanish -ado, -ido etc
and similar endings in other Romance languages?
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