Re: [tied] Re: Alb. suffix "-oj"

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:06:04 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>What I can constate by myself, the suffix become very productive when
>making verbs from nouns.
>gât > gâtui(neck-to strangle); mânã > mânui (hand- to handle), etc.
>Apparently this suffix is attached to words which end in consonant (
>where the old final "u" became mute). In this case the word "mânã"
>(hand) must derive from an older *manu with change of the gendre (why?);

There was no change of gender: Latin manus was a feminine u-stem. Romanian
applied a change of declension by assigning the word to the feminine
a-stems.

>Rosetti quote here Al. Graur which sustain the sufix "-ui" should derive
>from an older nasalised form "-uni" where "n" was assimilated by "i" as
>in other "yotacisms" [ ni > i( spune-spui); ri>i ( sãri-sãi); li > i (
>cale-cãi)].
>That appears a more paralel with Alb. in this case.[ see (-onj) versus
>(-uni) ]
>There is no reference of any Slavic *-ujo~ as being the basis for this
>suffix.

An incomprehensible oversight, since that's obviously its origin.

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