Suffix "-ean"

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" wrote:

>> The second argument why rom "ean" is not from Latin
>> (even if has the same function as the latin suffix)
>> is as people showed here, the words which ends in "-ân"
>> as in rumân, stãpân, jupân.
>
> It is, after all, a PIE suffix. But AFAIK -ean is rather
> influenced by some Slavic pattern.

Since Latin stressed /a/ preceding /n/ regularly evolves in
/â/ in Romanian, the stressed suffix "-ean" cannot continuate
a Latin "-anus". Both meaning and phonology point out towards
Slavic "-jan(-inU)" > Rom. "-ean(u)", possibly through plural
analogical derivation ("-En-ino-" > "-eni").

Regards,
Marius Iacomi