Re: Italian falegname "joiner"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@...> wrote:

> If Portuguese had an analogous formation would be "faz-lenhame",

but there's no such formation. In Portuguese we use "carpinteiro".

> From: Daniel J. Milton
> > According to Buck's "Synonyms":
> From 'fare' "do, make" and 'legname'"woodwork, articles made
> of wood" (< Latin 'lignum').

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Would someone explain the suffix "-me" in It. "legname" vs. "legno"
(and apparently Port. "lenhame" vs. "lenha")? I can't think of a
direct source in Latin.
Dan