History of the English language
Good better best
Bad worse worst
Much more most
Little less least
Estonian: hea parem (cf "paras" fitting, in Finnish "the best" - metonymical link),
palju - rohkem
Finnish: mennä (to go), lähteä (to leave)
Estonian: minema, mine, lähen, läksin
French: aller, je vais/nous allons, ira (future)
Russian: chelovek ljudi, French: personne-
gens, English: person persons/people
byt' est'
hodit' idti shol, shla.
horoshij luchij Essentially the same words suppletive in various languages, including
non-related ones. The most common words (`good', `to be', `to go', `much', "people", etc).
General principle: the more frequently used a word, the more one can "afford" it to
be irregular/non-iconic. Suppletion perhaps the most drastic form of
irregularity/iconicity), covers mainly the most frequent words
Metathesis-Two sounds, at least one of which is a consonant, change places inside a word.
annaabi.ee 
