Re: to kill

> Verbs having the p.p. in -s, like "strânge", "plânge", "mulge",
>"curge", "frige" etc. just like "ucide" with p.p. "ucis". The I-st
>person of many verbs with p.p. in -s ends in -g -> by analogy one
>reconstructs also "ucig" instead of "ucid" (it's even simpler to
>articulate, so that made happy lazy people -- engine core for any
>kind of evolution including language).

Hence the subjunctive <uciga> [u-tSi-'g&], e.g. in the locution
<Uciga-l toaca> (euphemism for the devil), instead of <Ucida-l...>.

> Marius Iacomi

George