Re: Romanian verbal paradigm

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi" <m_iacomi@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" wrote:

> >> I suppose you refer to -rã instead of -ru for 3rd plural

perfect.

> >> The ending -u would have been unusual for a 3rd person (since

up

> >> to CR and dialectal, -u was/is usual for 1st singular present
> >> tense). Instead of it, one has at the 1st conjugation an -ã for
> >> the 3rd person, sg. -> pl. (for the other conjugations, 3rd
> >> singular has an unstressed /-e/ which would have shifted between
> >> PBR and CR to /&/ if preceeded by /r/). So -ã was perceived as a
> >> kind of 3rd person morpheme and replaced final -u in -ru.
> >
> > [Richard]
> > Do you have some examples of final -re > -rã to further break
> > my sound change applier? _mare_ 'sea' doesn't support this
> > development.
>
> The developement is indeed specifical to inital syllable, but
> sometimes faces up also on the final: brachiale > brãTarã (for
> regularising purposes).

And now I've found some more germane examples:

_acoperi_ 'to cover': 3s ind. _acoperã_, 3 subj. _acopere_
_varî_ 'to put in' : 3s ind. _varã_, 3 subj. _vare_

The normal 4th conjugations endings are 3s ind. -e and 3 subj. -ã.

But:

_parea_ 'to seem' : 3s ind. _pare_, 3 subj. _parã_

This shows the normal 2nd conjugation endings.

Richard.