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I'm sorry for these little pieces of disinformation I was giving. I didn't do it on purpose. Regards, Stephan --- In Latejami@yahoogroups.com, MorphemeAddict@w... wrote: > > In a message dated 12/26/2005 1:37:25 PM Central Standard Time, > sts@s... writes: > > > > We shall also not forget the Esperanto ending "-au" in "baldaux", > > "morgaux", "hieraux", which always strictly refers to the speaker. It > > resembles the Latejami ending "u" in this sence. > > > > Again, "-aux" is not an ending; it's part of the root, and a 'pseudo-suffix' > at most. It's special only because just a handful of words, mostly adverbs, > end in it. Words ending with this vowel cluster need no other part-of-speech > ending, but such an ending may be added to change the part of speech; e.g. > "adiaux" - 'goodbye', "adiauxi" - 'to say goodbye, to take one's leave, etc.'. > > In other words, Esperanto has a small number of words with default parts of > speech. > It'd be nice if teachers and textbooks of Esperanto would acknowledge this > little tidbit. > > stevo >