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Nigolu worte:
From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@hidden.email> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:35:35 -0400 Adam Walker wrote: > > What endings? > >Adam Walker wrote: > > > jo sumu nos sumus > > > tu es tus sidis > > > vos sidi vosus sidis > > > vosas sidis > > > >Where'd the second person polite singular endings come from? I mean, where'd the distinction between _sidi_ and _sidis_ come from?
Ah, that. Sidi is a back formation. Some how it came to seem wrong to use the "same" verb for singular and plural so sidi was back formed.
And I have a typo in the above. The first person pronoun is NOT jo it is ju. "O" cannot be in final position.
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