Re: Romanian verbal paradigm

On Sun, Feb 8, 2004, at 12:22 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> Pres. subj. 3: _det_, _dent_ > *ze. Get (E) _dea_.

I'll add what's also in use...

... older and more wide-spread: (sã) deie ['de-je]. (Similar
parallelism: sã stea-steie, bea-beie, vinã-vie, s/punã-s/puie.)

> Imperfect 1s: _dabam_ > *da. Get (F) _dam_, the reg. form.

...and dãdeam (seemingly more frequent than <dam>).

> Imperfect 2s: _daba:s_ > *da. Get (G) _dai_, the reg. form.

...and dãdeai [d&-'deaj]

> Imperfect 3s: _dabat_ > _da_, the regular form.

...and dãdea [d&-'dea]

> Imperfect 1pl: _daba:mus_ > _dam_, the regular form.

...and dãdeam [d&-'deam]

> Imperfect 2pl: _daba:tis_ > *date. Get (D) _datzi_, the reg. form.

...and dãdeatzi [d&-'deatz*]

> Imperfect 3pl: _dabant_ > *da. Get (E)_dau_ the regular form.

...and dãdeau [d&-'deau]

> Perfect 1s: _dedi:_ > *zezi. Get _dai_, the reg. form. The whole
> perfect is regular.

The simple perfect is represented by these:

dãdui [d&-'duj], dãdu$i [d&-'du$*], dãdu, dãdurãm, dãdurãtzi,
dãdurã. (Regional: detei [-'tej], dete$i, dete ['--],
deterãm ['---], deterãtzi, deterã.)

An older form - attested in documents 4-5 centuries old - is
... dediu (!) instead of today's dãdui.

George

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"Care dete cu cutzitu?" (Horia Cãciulescu)