Re: to kill

From: m_iacomi
Message: 28223
Date: 2003-12-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" wrote:

> I was searcing for some forms of Latin "occidere" but I could not
> find anything with "g" there.
>
> Does anyone know about Latin "occidere" where the verb appears
> as "occigo-" or something simmilar where the "g" is present there?

There is nothing in Latin with /g/. I wrote:
<And no, it is not a new word since it appears in ancient texts
(even with analogical forms in some of them: "ucigu")>
^^^^^^^^^^
The word "analogical" is to be taken as opposed to "etymological":
there is no etymological reason for the presence of the /g/, the
reason is analogy with other verbal forms having it.

Marius Iacomi