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--- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@hidden.email> wrote: > Roger Mills scripsit: > > Yitzik quotes "Introduction to Romance Philology", > p.245: > <<Past participle uses less variants in Romance > languages: suffix > _-�tus_ (as in _p�rditus_) disappeared; Italian, > French and Romanian > started widely using a Vulgar Latin suffix _-utus_ > for II and III > conjugations that displaced irregular forms; > Ibero-Romance languages > lost _-utus_ forms that were active yet in 13th c. > (OSp. _perdudo_, > MnSp. _perdido_) and made suffix _-�tus_ standard > for II, III and IV > conjugations: cf. L. _cadere, pp _casum_, It. > _caduto_, OFr. > _che�t_, Ro. _c�zut_, but Sp. _ca�do_, Po. > _ca�do_.>> > > -- Yitzik > > C-a is a bit weird here it has -adu for conjugation I (-ari), -udu for conjugations II and IIIa (-eri), and -idu for conjugations IIIb and IV (-iri). Except the IIIa/b split isn't so clean as all that. Some a's went to (-iri) and some b's went to (-eri) and I really can't say why except that phonology seems to have been a factor. Adam ===== Indjindrud edjuebu ul Ozias ad ul Jotam. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Jotam ad ul Acaz. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Acaz ad ul Ezecias. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Ezecias ad ul Manases. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Manases ad ul Amos. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Amos ad ul Josias. Machu 1:9-10