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- ↑ However, some unstandardized languages are chosen in non-standard dialects instead based on their uniqueness. This table below excludes periphrastic tenses.
- ↑ Vadere is cognate with English wade (PIE root *weh₂dʰ-).
- ↑ Late Lat. *ambitāre is a frequentative form of classical ambio ‘to go around’.
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- ↑ The preterites of "to be" and "to go" are identical in Spanish and Portuguese. Compare the English construction "Have you been to France?" which has no simple present form.
- 1 2 Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic root *gōdaz
- 1 2 3 4 Max Vasmer, Russisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
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- ↑ Paul Georg Meyer (1997) Coming to know: studies in the lexical semantics and pragmatics of academic English, p. 130: "Although many linguists have referred to [collateral adjectives] (paternal, vernal) as 'suppletive' adjectives with respect to their base nouns (father, spring), the nature of ..."
- ↑ Aspects of the theory of morphology, by Igor Mel’čuk, p. 461
