On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:35:22 +0200,
alexmoeller@... wrote:
>[Moeller]
>Interesting is, if we make a commparation for the past form
>of "to be " in latin and umbrian we will se as fallow:
>lat. = erit
(imperfect) (perfect)
eram fui:
era:s fuisti:
erat fuit
era:mus fuimus
era:tis fuistis
erant fue:re (fuerunt, fue:runt)
Erit is the 3sg. future.
>umbrian = fust
>romanian = fost
(imperfect) (perfect)
eram fui
erai fus,i
era fu
eram furãm
erat,i furãt,i
erau furã
<fost> is the past participle, newly created on the perfect stem fu- and
following the model of ponere / pos(i)tu. Latin didn't have a past passive
participle of the verb <esse> (only a future ptc. <futu:rus>), and the Romance
languages have created new forms to express this: Spa/Port. sido < seditu "sat",
Fra/Occ/Cat/Ita été, estat, stato < sta:tu "stood", Romanian fost, Aromanian
futu.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...