Re: Good, better, Best. Bad, Worse, Worst

From: rhtabone@...
Message: 11325
Date: 2001-11-20

Ok, so an Indo-Iranian language is either 'still' regular (assuming
that a change took place as the IE people moved westward) or 'already'
regular (assuming that Proto-IE started irregular and some earlier
groups decided to change while the travelling groups kept the
irregularity)

Intriguing.

--- In cybalist@..., liberty@... wrote:
> Ossetic has xorz "good" and xuyzdær "better" based
> on the same stem, and fyd "bad" and fyddær "worse",
> but I don't know how old they are.
> -David
>
> --- In cybalist@..., rhtabone@... wrote:
> > Thanks Anders.
> >
> > Your example is great.
> >
> > I know there are some IE languages that regularized their
> > comparatives and superlatives but still have the 'original'
> irregular
> > form.
> >
> > Anybody else?