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Padraic Brown skrev:
--- Jul�a <descubralia@hidden.email> wrote:hmm, where does "fieri" come from?It's Latin. Fieri: become, be made.It reminds me of the preterit in Spanish of ser (and ir) [fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fuisteis(?), fueron] are they related?Fu- is the regular perfect stem of Latin esse. I gather from Sihler that they aren't related, but he does admit that the etymology of fieri isn't so well known.
Actually both _fieri_ and _fuit_ come from the
Indo-European root *bheu-, or rather from
its zero grade *bhu: (< *bhuH) "to be,
to become". _Fieri_ is a causative *bhu:-yo-
so it is not strange that they have similar
forms and meanings.
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/BP 8^)>
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