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--- Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@hidden.email> wrote: > Thanks to you all for answering my query about > estar vs. ser. How did French > and others get away without having two? Might it be an Iberian thing? I don't think Romanian has it, and I don't think Italian has it either. Of course, I could be wrong. Padraic. > -----Original Message----- > From: romconlang@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:romconlang@yahoogroups.com]On > Behalf Of Henrik Theiling > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:03 PM > To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [romconlang] estar vs. ser > > > Hi! > > Scotto Hlad writes: > > Hello, > > > > How did estar and ser come to be separate > verbs in languages such as > > Portuguese, Spanish and Galician? French > seems to combine them in etre > > (which no doubt would have been estre in > older times). Did I miss > something > > in high-school Latin class? Or is this more > a function of Vulgar Latin > that > > I missed out on as well? > > Well, estar < L. stare, ser < PRom. *essere < > L. esse. They were two > verbs in Latin. > > Or is it not this simple bit of information > you were looking for and > instead, you are aiming at a somewhat more > deep analysis? > > **Henrik > > > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > romconlang-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > a.. Visit your group "romconlang" on the > web. > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send > an email to: > romconlang-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject > to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > Camifi, Marusi, teterani, tester fuferios asteros; tamenio vem Persaecion empuriase ed ec pasem emduriase! --Pomperios Perfurios. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.bethisad.com> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .