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Etymological Dictionary of Basque - Cryptm.org

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24 R. L. Trask<br />

participles, with the usual Latin ending -tum, and that the morph -tu thus obtained supplanted<br />

the native suffix. For many centuries now, all new verbs entering the language from<br />

whatever source have formed their participles only with -tu. This applies both to verbs<br />

borrowed from Latin and Romance and to verbs created within the language from non-verbal<br />

stems. Verbs in -tu never exhibit any synthetic forms at all. But note that native verbs in -i<br />

have occasionally been transferred to the -tu class, as explained in {section 8} M**{14}.

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