Re: The Hoffmann suffix

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

> so perhaps Latin -io:, -ion- is a compromise?

-io:, -io:n-, actually, with nom.sg. -o:(n) generalised, which is what
Latin normally does. Originally, the oblique variant was *-i-h3n- >
-i:n- (visible elsewhere in Italic). This is also one possible source
of Germanic weak stems in *-i:n- (generalising the weak variant, while
the strong cases yield *-j-o:n-). Cf. Lat communio:, Goth. gamainei
(gen. -eins) < *kom-moini-h3(o)n-.

> Kuhn found many matches (identical roots) between place names
> (strong) and personal names in the Nordwestblock. So part of the
> weak inflection is taken from a substrate?

But the distribution od nasal stems as placenames and personal names
is pan-IE!

Piotr