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Re: ad-



--- Christian Thalmann skrzypszy:

> Do you consider it realistic to use other Latin words as a base
> for "be present" and "be absent"?  |Praeesse| or |inesse| for 
> the former, maybe?

Well, I think it is a quite natural mechanism in the development of a 
language, that when two incompatible forms start to look too much 
like each other, then one of them is substituted by something else. 
If I were you, I would try to construct this new form from (Early) 
Jovian, not from Latin.

Alternatives could come from: "esse praesens", "ne adesse", etc.

Jan