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--- Benct Philip Jonsson skrzypszy: > > > Could it be that the final /e/ disappeared from the infinitives > > > before the palatalization? > > > >Yes, it's about the only acceptable explanation I can think of. > >Although it still remains a mystery why it occurred only in the > >case of infinitives... ;)) > > At least the exact same thing happened in both > Slvanjec and in 'real' Rmc langs. Except Italian, I think. Or could it be that the fine -e in Italian infinitives was re-added later, because the Italians don't like final consonants? What do the Slevanian infinitives look like, at present? Does it also swallow the /r/, like Romanian does? IIRC, in the first drafts of Slevanian, you had endings -rz. Jan