History of the English language
what were originally different paradigms (different words with close meanings or words in
different but close dialects).Suppletion embraces verbs, adjectives, nouns.
Be was/were been (Old English beon/wesan)
(am, art, is, are); in Old English some suppletive
forms were used parallel to one another)
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).
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