Re: ?? Re: a "natural language" ?

John Cowan wrote:

>Rodlox scripsit:
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>> is suppletive supposed to mean that it is supplementary?
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>No.  A suppletive inflected form is one that is supplied from a different
>root.  For example, the past tense of "go" in English is "went", which is
>supplied from the root "wend" (now archaic and poetic).  This happened
>when the regular past tense of "go" disappeared in the pre-Old-English
>period (oddly, OE itself had a *different* suppletive past tense for
>this verb).
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>More examples at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppletion .
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The only suppletive form that I can think of that still retains a
seperate root is 'fast~quickly', if that counts.

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