From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 48492
Date: 2007-05-09
> Talking of Romanian, the word 'fost' "been" is curious. It cant beBut all Romance languages have them (in nearly all cases reflecting
> Latin since Latin has no ppp. for 'sum',
> and can't be newlyIt's quite obviously the preterite stem <fus-> plus the normal past
> constructed from Latin fu-; the -st- points to a language with -dh +
> t- > -st-, where Latin (Germanic, Celtic) has > -ss-.