Dear collegues.
I'm now examining a very active Iranian
place-name suffix -a:na, -ana (New Persian -a:n, e.g. Tehra:n or Esfaha:n).
Maybe, it is some rather old contamination of different suffixes and endings,
such as patronymia in -ana, verbal Nomina
Loci in -na and thematic Gen. Pl. in -a:na:m, maybe not.
With my minimal knowledge of Indoeuropaean
studies I tried to find any corresponding place-name suffigia in other
IE languages (it can be IE *-a(:)no-, *-e(:)no- or *-o(:)no-), but with minimal
success. (German: Brehmen, Muenchen or Saarbruecken are merely plural, or
not?)
I'm very interested if you can name me
something similar in other groups of IE languages, or if you can state
there are no correspondences of this suffix (in it's toponymical usage) in
the fellow-languages of IE family.
Will be grateful for any suggestions,
references of www-links.
Best regards,
Pavel Lurje.