Re: [tied] a question regarding Latin nasal

From: aquila_grande
Message: 18664
Date: 2003-02-10

About some words woth or without nasal

In the greek dasos, I assume that the "a" originates from a
syllabic "n" *dnsos.

The italian serpe: Italian has two words for snake: serpe and
serpente.

Forthermore it has the verb "serpere" meaning to creep. "Serpe" cat
simply be regarded as just another derivation from the verb root serp-
in italian. In italian you can derive a noun from nearly any verb by
adding a wovel to the stem. If you use the vovel -e, this often
produses a name for something that does some intransitive action.


> Miguel, I just begun to search my bad dictionary ( there are by far
not
> all the words how I cuold see).
> I just looked a bit and I found an another one:
>
> Latin :"densus"
> Greek : dasos
> Romanian : des
>
> This got me indeed curious now, I will search for more.It seems I
have
> to take a credit for an ethymologic dictionary of Latin.
> Anyone has one to sell? ( I am just half joking now )
>
> Alex