Re: [tied] a question regarding Latin nasal

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

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> They do: Skt. sarpant-, Grk. hérpo:n (hérpont-) "the creeping one"

Miguel, If I try to make derivatives now I can make "sherpanime" in
Romanian. It is not used by anyone but it will be theoretically corect
and everyone will know I mean "Serparie".

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> Additional on serpe:ns, serpentem: I had forgotten about Ita. serpe,
> which can perhaps be explained by loss of -n in Eastern Romance, but
> not so Cat./Occ. serp, Old Cast. sierpe. As Meyer-Lübke already
> showed, Lat. serpe:ns, pronounced /serpe:s/, when the semantic
> connection with the participle loosened up, was reinterpreted as an
> e:-stem serpe:s, serpe:m (or later even as a C-stem serps, serpem),
> which then gives the Romance forms. The form serpent (Cat/Occ/Fre),
> serpiente (Cast) is learned, not inherited
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Reinterpeted by whom?