Re: [tied] Question on Latin manducare

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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> alexandru_mg3 schrieb:
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> > Could somebody help me with the etymology of Latin manducare

(>Romanian

> > mânca)
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> > Especially I need to explain me the -uka- formation inside this

word

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> > (PIE suffix *-uko formations are mainly related to adjectives and

nouns

> > so I'm confused here)
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> > Thansk in advance,
> > marius
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> the dictionary gives it as mando:= kauen, chew ( a mesteca), late
> latin "to eat". It appears -uka is in fact a derivative from "-

ucus"

> from "mandu:cus"(Vielfrass, mâncãu, haplea); I will think the
> reduction of the word "manducare"
> happened already in vernacular Latin where nd > n and later the "u"
> from *manucare > *mancare; the word should explain the romance
> forms.
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> So far I can see in the dictionary, the cognates of the Latin word
> appears not so clear if we think the Greek form for "kauen" (chew)
> are some derivatives including "mastikow" ( see Rumn. mesteca=

chew )

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> Alex
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Thanks, Alex.

So the source seems to be Latin manducus reflecting the PIE suffix *-
uko, and next a verb was constructed based on this word

Marius