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FromMiddle Frenchsuis, fromOld Frenchsui, fromLatinsum. The expected Old French reflex ofsum would be*son. The formsui goes back toVulgar Latin*suiō or earlier*suī, which were probably influenced by the perfect tensefuī (“I was”, modern Frenchfus). Compare the reverse development inGalicianfun(“I was”), from Vulgar Latin*fum, influenced by the present form. Final-s was added in later Old French to the first-person singular forms by analogy with the second person; it was standardised in Modern French in most cases except after unstressed-e and in the ending-ai of the future and past historic.
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