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Nik Taylor writes: >E^tre comes from _stare_ "be located", Spanish comes from _sedere_, >whose meaning I can't remember at the moment. Sedere means "to sit". I had thought Luca's origin for "ser" wasn't right to me. Apparently here's the development of "ser" from "sedere": SEDERE > seer > ser this is similar to verbs like "ver": VIDERE > veer > ver Interestingly the verb "leer" keeps the two e's instead of coaslescing them: LEGERE > leer __________________________ Communication is not just words, communication is...architecture because of course it is quite obvious that the house that would be built without that desire, that desire to communicate, would not look as your house does today.