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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: es+bhu
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: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood) writes:
: >The forms of `be' show a similar cooperation of three ancient roots: 
: >_es_ `be (timelessly)', _wes_ `remain' and _bhu_ `become'.

Richard M. Alderson III <alderson@netcom.com> says:
: Although this goes all the way back to Indo-European, rather than
: being a development in the later languages.

Latin, of course, combines _es_ and _bhu_ forms (as does Russian I
think), but what about _wes_?

French and Italian, to different degrees, also bring forms of 
_sta:_ `stand' into the paradigm.
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