From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 44915
Date: 2006-06-08
On 6/8/06, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> To conclude, Albanian suffix –tar(e) is directly derived from PIE *-
> tor-.
Basque has a suffix -tar in place-of-origin compounds, and the
unrelated Iberian language might have had it too, according to Trask.
Are you sure the -tar suffix is not of substrate origin?
Torsten
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I am sure it is from PIE origin and has its cognate in Latin -tor, as well as in Greek and Hittite, for PIE *o > Alb. /a/ and it has same function, forms nomina agentis in all these languages. Further, in Basque it has different function and about Iberian language I have no clue.
Konushevci