From: alex
Message: 22283
Date: 2003-05-26
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:it looks like trying to make the best of something but not very clean .
>> which is the meaning of the Latin particle "-bris", particle which
> is to
>> find in the denomination of the months ?
>>
>> (September, Octomber, November, December)
>>
>> Alex
>
> It's actually not a particle, but the result of a sound change. The
> following is from Andrew Sihler's New Comparative Grammar of Greek
> and Latin (1995):
>
> septem-mens-ri- "pertaining to the seventh month"
>
>> septemenèri- > septemembri- > nom. september via syncope and
> assimilation
>
> - Rob