lpetrich
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Proto-Indo-European verbs - it also had related-verb aspects, but formed very differently from Slavic ones. I can't find any good lists of reconstructed examples, however. The PIE system has lots of relics in the dialects, like irregular past-tense formations in Germanic, Latin, and Greek.
There's a notable bit of suppletion in PIE: "to be": imperfective *h1es-, perfective *bheuH- They show up as English "is", "be", and Latin "est", "fuit", for instance. "Was" is further suppletion in Germanic.
Suppletion is full of examples.
English "go" also has suppletion: its past tense "went" from "wend".
The Romance conjugations of their words for "to go" are a crazy quilt of suppletion, from these five sources in their ancestor, Latin:
I consulted Verbix:
There's a notable bit of suppletion in PIE: "to be": imperfective *h1es-, perfective *bheuH- They show up as English "is", "be", and Latin "est", "fuit", for instance. "Was" is further suppletion in Germanic.
Suppletion is full of examples.
English "go" also has suppletion: its past tense "went" from "wend".
The Romance conjugations of their words for "to go" are a crazy quilt of suppletion, from these five sources in their ancestor, Latin:
- vādere ‘to go, proceed’,
- īre ‘to go’
- ambitāre ‘to go around’ -> Spanish, Portuguese andar "to walk"
- ambulāre ‘to walk’
- fuī suppletive perfective of esse ‘to be’
I consulted Verbix:
- French: aller (4), present je vais (1), (boot verb) nous allons (4), future j'irai (2), others also (4) including the subjunctive
- Spanish: ir (2), present yo voy (1), impf. yo iba (2), past yo fui (5), future yo iré (2), past part. ido (2)
- Portuguese: ir (much like Spanish)
- Italian: andare (3), present io vado (1), (boot verb) noi andiamo, impf. io andavo (3), others also (3)
- Catalan: anar (much like Italian)