Re: [tied] Rom. fost

On 2007-05-09 08:21, tgpedersen wrote:

> Talking of Romanian, the word 'fost' "been" is curious. It cant be
> Latin since Latin has no ppp. for 'sum',

But all Romance languages have them (in nearly all cases reflecting
*statu-).

> and can't be newly
> constructed from Latin fu-; the -st- points to a language with -dh +
> t- > -st-, where Latin (Germanic, Celtic) has > -ss-.

It's quite obviously the preterite stem <fus-> plus the normal past
participle suffix <-t->, just like <fãcu> 'he did' : <fãcut> 'done'.

Piotr