Re: Res: [tied] The -SG- in Greek (PELASGOS)

From: G&P
Message: 61598
Date: 2008-11-14

>The Gk. suffix -ád- seems to have originated as a secondarily accented
>allomorph of *-n.t- (Olsen 1989

I agree with the meaning, it’s clearly related to pallas, youth.  But why isn’t it taken as palla-d-, with the same –d- suffix that creates the patronymics (Boreád- and so on)?

Peter