Celtic influence

[Rick Mc Callister]

	Italian also has essere & stare; although it uses them a bit
different from Spanish & Portuguese. French seems to have merged them
--e^tre is from stare but its conjugated forms are from the Latin root of
essere.

>	Yes, I agree there is seemingly Celtic (grammatical) influence in
>most of Western Romance, most notably French.  It is just a little more
>difficult to nail down, without actual knowledge of the Celtic languages
>in question.  For example we may note the "two BE verbs" syndrome in
>Iberian.
>
>					DLW

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
MUW
Columbus MS 39701
rmccalli at sunmuw1.muw.edu