Re: origo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

>
> > Speaking if which, whence the o- of 'origo', since Latin doesn't

have

> > prothetic vowels?
>
> It's unrelated to <re:x>. <ori:go:> comes from <orior, ori:ri:>
> 'arise'. The <g> is suffixal, as in <verti:go:>.
>

That's a shame, given the semantics (in Benveniste's version). Also,
one would have to deal with the unwanted -i- and claim it to be a
loanword, right?

Torsten