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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote: > 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. Good ideas. German and English don't have a single verb for the meaning of "to be absent" either. I do already have a verb for the related meaning "lack": |vagare|. -- Christian Thalmann