From: Barry Garcia (barry_garcia@csumb.edu)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 11:21:06 EST
Nik Taylor writes:
>E^tre comes from _stare_ "be located", Spanish comes from _sedere_,
>whose meaning I can't remember at the moment.
Sedere means "to sit". I had thought Luca's origin for "ser" wasn't right
to me. Apparently here's the development of "ser" from "sedere":
SEDERE > seer > ser
this is similar to verbs like "ver":
VIDERE > veer > ver
Interestingly the verb "leer" keeps the two e's instead of coaslescing
them:
LEGERE > leer
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