Re: origo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Speaking if which, whence the o- of 'origo', since Latin doesn't have
> prothetic vowels?

It's unrelated to <re:x>. <ori:go:> comes from <orior, ori:ri:>
'arise'. The <g> is suffixal, as in <verti:go:>.

Piotr