Re: ...Verb Endings and Substratum...

Miguel wrote:

> Latin cantare is an a:-verb

So is Romanian cântá, cântáre.

> Romanian:
> -(u)
> *-e (replaced by -i)
> -e
> -em(u)
> -etzi
> -(u)

That's right. In order to have these endings,
cânta would have looked like this: *cânteá, cântére

George