Indo-European copula copula (with corresponding voiceless and voiced fricatives) existed side by side in Germanic, and the involvement of a separate root "" is unnecessary. The root "*(s)teh-" meant "to stand". From this root comes the present stem of the so-called "substantive verb" in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, "tá" and "tha" respectively. On the absence of the initial s- in Celtic, see Indo-European s-mobile. In Latin, "stō, stare" retained the meaning "to stand", until local forms of Vulgar Latin began to use it as a copula in certain circumstances. Today, this survives in that several Romance languages (Galician-Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan) use it
Bashkortostan Bashkortostan is a state, but has no sovereignty. On 11 October 1990 Bashkortostan adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty, but subsequently abandoned it. 11 October is Republic Day in Bashkortostan. The name "Bashkortostan" derives from the name of the Bashkir ethnic group, also known as Başqorts. While the root of the name is Turkic (being a combination of ", which in Turkish can mean "head", "chief", "main", "principal", and 'qort' meaning "wolf", one of the animals regarded as sacred to Turkic peoples); the suffix -stan is Persian, common to many Asian country names. They speak the Bashkir language, which belongs