From: Adam Walker (dreamertwo@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 21:05:16 EST
>From: "Mangiat" <mangiat@tin.it>
>Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:26:35 +0200
>
>Where you meet an initial _s_, as in Italian _sei_, _siete_, Sicilian _si_,
>_siti_, _, Lombard _seet_ [se:t], _sii_ [si:] that's analogy with the _s_
>in
>the 1st sg. + the regular ending (from Latin -tis).
>
Interesting. Would I be imposing if I asked for the conjugation in Lombard?
> > I'm assuming that the others are suppletive forms and not out right
> > coinages. Which verms do the other forms come from???
>
>If you are interested in odd forms, here's archaic Italian _enno_, Ligurian
>_en_, Lombard _hinn_, meaning _they are_;
Where do *these* forms come from. They are *way* cool.
or take a look also at Piedmontese
>with its cool ending -oma for 1 pl. which applies also for verb 'to be':
>soma [suma] (cantoma [kaN'tuma] we sing). Italian 'dialects' are
>morphological treasures.
Also interesting.
Adam
>
>Luca
>
>
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