Re: [tied] vegliot

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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] vegliot



> Does Manczak explain why he see there a combination of -e:ns and -a:num?

Both -e:ns(is) and -a:nus are common Latin suffixes, the combination looks
plausible and the development -e:nsa:nu(m) > -isun is regular (see <vetrun>
below). Prof. Manczak is a competent Romance linguist from Kraków and I
suppose he knows what he talks about in this case.

> On another hand "old" in Vegliot was with the diphtong "ie" (vieklo) and
> not "vekli". The "m" at the end of the "sum" will speak for mentaining
> of the final consonants which should sound a bit strange too..

It's <-un> (from Lat. -a:num). It's the medial /n/ that is preserved, not
the "final consonant". As for the ordinary Vegliot name for 'old', it was
actually <vetrun> from vet(e)ra:num.

Piotr