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Mangiat wrote: > All the infinities you listed - except the Rumanian one- are from Lat. > infinitive 'essere'. Spanish and Portuguese did undergo apocope: essere > > (es)sere > ser(e); French went this way: essere > estre > e^tre; Rumanian on > the other hand seems to derive its verb 'to be' from Latin fieri 'to > become'. E^tre comes from _stare_ "be located", Spanish comes from _sedere_, whose meaning I can't remember at the moment. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42