Re: to kill

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

>> 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.
>
> analogy with what ? which a verb should be in your eyes the one who
> made the analogy here?

Verbs having the p.p. in -s, like "strânge", "plânge", "mulge",
"curge", "frige" etc. just like "ucide" with p.p. "ucis". The I-st
person of many verbs with p.p. in -s ends in -g -> by analogy one
reconstructs also "ucig" instead of "ucid" (it's even simpler to
articulate, so that made happy lazy people -- engine core for any
kind of evolution including language).

Marius Iacomi