Re: [tied] Re: About the etymology of *nepo:t- "nephew/grandson"

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 5527
Date: 2001-01-15

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:41:16 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>The alternating part of *nepot- is invariably the second syllable: *nepo:ts, pl. *nepotes, Gen.sg. *nept-os, fem. *nept-ih2-, adj. *nept-ijo-. The fact that Germanic has *nef-o:n- makes me suspect that the real internal division (if any) is *nep-ot-.

Oh, yeah: *neptih2 > Gmc. nifti (> Du. nicht), showing the -t was
really there in Germanic.

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