Re: Richard- o:z

Richard, thanks a lot, I appreciate it.

what is the ":" between the o and z in -o:z and how is it pronounced?

-Michael


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Smith"
> <mytoyneighborhood@...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the (reconstructed I assume) Germanic nominative plural
> > equivalent of the latin -i, such as occurs in tribal names such

as

> > Alemanni, Marcomanni, Marsi, etc.? In other words, what would

tribal

> > names such as these have been in Germanic?
>
> -o:z before the reduction of unstressed vowels kicked in. The

Romans

> correctly identified the Germanic a-stems (masculine) with the

Latin

> 2nd declension.
>
> > Also, would the Latin -ones ending in names such as the Teutones

and

> > Semnones have been -aniz in Germanic.
> >
> > And finally, what would the Germanic nominative singular

equivalents

> > of Latin -us, -es and -is such as occurs in personal names have

been?

>
> -us = -az (rarely -uz)
> -is = -iz
>
> Richard.