310: To Be Oct 14, 2015

How is it that 'am' 'are' and 'is' are all forms of 'to be'‽ The form used to be much closer, in Middle English, the verb used for we, ye, and they was, 'ben', similar to the 'been' and 'being' still used in Modern English. The variant forms like, 'am', 'is', (and also 'were', 'was' &c.) are related to the Indo-European root, similar to the Latin, 'sum' 'es(t)', although the origin of 'are' is unknown.