Re: [tied] Re: Protobulgarian inscriptions

07-07-03 20:33, g wrote:

>>[Eva:] Btw, what makes an impression to me personally is the form of
>>the verb to be in 3rd pers. sg.: <e>. This form of the verb is
>>preserved till the present day. Which might suggest the
>>conjugation as a whole could have been under
>
> ... Romanian influence! ;-) ("e" the short form of "este")

The reduced variant <(j)e> of *(j)estI is very widespread in Slavic. You
can find it e.g. in Slovene, Sorbian, Czech and Slovak, Kashubian, and
in Polish dialects. For obvious reasons, function verbs often undergo
irregular simplification.

Piotr