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--- Adam Walker skrzypszy: > > In a few cases both reg. and irreg.occur, and it seems by and > > large that the reg. form is used in conjugation, the > > irreg. is an adjective. > > Now THAT is quite interesting. I hadn't thought of > having both forms. I could keep nadu as an adjective > and then the song would be grammatically . . . not it > migh still be wrong, but perhaps consciously so in > imitation of Latin. Anyhoo, I could keep nadu as an > adjective and use naxidu in conjugations. In a way, Wenedyk does the same: "naszkut" it the normal p.p., but there is also the word "nat", a substantive with the meaning "child". Although even in Latin this was already a substantive (fourth declension, IIRC). > > Where do all those forms with -u- come from > > anyway??? > > Fr., Ital, Romanian?, Catalan In Wenedyk, the -u- fills the gap between the word root and the p.p. ending -t. Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html