Note 138 — Chapter V · THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROOTS.
Reading edition
Compare the Italian stare, Spanish estar. Prof. Key (Trans. of Phil. Soc. vol. iv.) quotes an anecdote of a lady who had to tell her African servant, “Go and fetch big teacup, he live in pantry.” We cannot, however, accept his derivations of “esse” from “edo,” and “vivo” from “bibo.”