Re: Remnant of the future

Op 31/03/2024 om 22:25 schreef Christian Weisgerber:

On 2024-03-31, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
 

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"the only trace of [the Latin future tense] is one form, in one
language, with a different function, namely Spanish eres ‘you are’
(sing.), "
>
Fascinating!

 To the degree that the Latin verb system made it into the Romance
languages, Spanish has preserved the endings fairly well.  The most
glaring difference is the loss of final -t.  That of course turned
"es/est" into "es/es", so it is not surprising that a new form was
found to disambiguate second from third person.  I thought "eres"
was influenced by the imperfect, but a borrowing from the future
tense is plausible.

I find those equally [un]likely as a simple duplication "eses" ... "eres" through rhotacism or what's it called.
There's also the plural "sois" that's different, sounds like due to some 'regularisation' sumus, *sutis*, sunt?
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