Re: ...Verb Endings and Substratum...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <st-george@...> wrote:

> Miguel wrote:
>
> > Latin cantare is an a:-verb
>
> So is Romanian cântá, cântáre.
>
> > Romanian:
> > -(u)
> > *-e (replaced by -i)
> > -e
> > -em(u)
> > -etzi
> > -(u)
>
> That's right. In order to have these endings,
> cânta would have looked like this: *cânteá, cântére
>
> George

That's right, George. Miguel choose the 'wrong' endings...based on
the his 'good' logic 'more distant the phonetism was more easy to be
adapted'

The good endings are :
-u
-i
-a
-ame
-ate
-a

=> try with them, please....