From: Nik Taylor (fortytwo@gdn.net)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 08:46:42 EST
Mangiat wrote:
> All the infinities you listed - except the Rumanian one- are from Lat.
> infinitive 'essere'. Spanish and Portuguese did undergo apocope: essere >
> (es)sere > ser(e); French went this way: essere > estre > e^tre; Rumanian on
> the other hand seems to derive its verb 'to be' from Latin fieri 'to
> become'.
E^tre comes from _stare_ "be located", Spanish comes from _sedere_,
whose meaning I can't remember at the moment.
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