152. For the 1st pers. sg., the Provençal verb used the form ✱_ayo_ ＞
ai (§ 73, βy); for the 2d and 3d pers. sg. and the 3d pers. pl., the
forms ✱_has_ ＞ as, ✱_hat_ ＞ a (§ 82, T), ✱_hant_ ✱_haunt_ ＞ an aun (§
83, Nt): see § 137, (1). In the 1st and 2d pers. pl., _habēmu’_(§ 82,
S, 2), _habētis_ naturally gave avẹm, avẹtz (§ 64); but inasmuch as
the other four terminations were monosyllabic, the av- was dropped
when avẹm, avẹtz came to be understood merely as future endings. The
future is, therefore, inflected as follows:--
cantar-ái cantar-ẹm
cantar-ás cantar-ẹtz, -ẹs, -ẹt
cantar-á cantar-án, -ánt, -áun, -áu
1. In Gascony and Languedoc we find -ęi for -ai: see §§ 23,
2; 162, (4). In Gascon and in the modern dialects of some
other regions -am is used for ẹm. In some dialects of Béarn,
Languedoc, Provence, and Dauphiné, -ẹm becomes -ẹn: cf. § 65,
M, 1; also § 167, 2.