Jackk wrote: ↑12 Jan 2019 02:10Thank you! It's the result of a merger between attentō "I try" and attendō "I wait". The descendant of the past participle of attendō - attentum - had previously shifted to atte(n)sum by analogy with prehendō, prehe(n)sum "I take, taken".
Then the merger spread this form to both verbs, and the descendant of attēsum is attis.
That's what I suspected. I did something similar in an earlier version of Silvish. The change in meaning is unique but believable.
Well, now I've got to try it in my romlang.
Silvish
S' que vou ppusses s' que vou-z epprouves, lou mondou ettrà a vveû. Vou llou ses, noù ?
[ske.vup.pyˈsɛs ske.vu.zɛp.pʁuˈvɛs | luˈmɔ̃n.du ʔɛˈtʁa ʔɑˈvœː | vul.luˈsɛs ˈnu]
if SBRD 2P be_capable_of.PRS_SBJV-2P DEM REL 2P try-2P DEF-M.C world be-FUT.3S to 2P.DISJ | 2P 3S-ACC know-2P no If you can do what you're trying to do, you'll own the world. You know that, don't you?
S' que vou ppusses s' que vou-z epprouves, lou mondou ettrà a vveû. Vou llou ses, noù ?
[ske.vup.pyˈsɛs ske.vu.zɛp.pʁuˈvɛs | luˈmɔ̃n.du ʔɛˈtʁa ʔɑˈvœː | vul.luˈsɛs ˈnu]
if SBRD 2P be_capable_of.PRS_SBJV-2P DEM REL 2P try-2P DEF-M.C world be-FUT.3S to 2P.DISJ | 2P 3S-ACC know-2P no
If you can do what you're trying to do, you'll own the world. You know that, don't you?
Nice! Part ofnme is crying at ettrà but I like epprouves very much? Where is it from?
terram impūram incolāmus hamteu un mont sug let us live in a dirty world