Re: [tied] The e:us suffix, its origin...

-eus is a common ending in Greek. My question was: what its origin? It doesnt imply necessarily that all these eus-names have a common origin. This suffix may have more than one source.

Joao SL

P&G <G&P@...> escreveu:

>I think Laodikeus is wrong, correct is Laodikaios.

If it occurs in the literature, it is not wrong.  It's not in L&S - but it
is at Colossians 4:16.  So it exists.  It is of course a late formation -
but this is one reason for my question - how do you distinguish late
formations from inherited ones?

>Zeus has not a suffix -eus.

Of course.  And this is the reason for my second question.  Can you
distinguish -eus  words of different origin?  Or do you just assume they are
all the same, except for Zeus?

Peter