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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...> wrote:
> The occi- is an ancient root.
>
> It shows up in Anatolian aki- (to kill), without a trace of the
strange -g-
> . Does anyone know the origin of the final -dere (I assume
originally -dese)
And there was me thinking it was simply _ob_ + _caedere_, an
intensive of _caedere_ 'to fell', parallel to _occidere_ 'fall,
die', an intensive of _cadere_ 'to fall'. The association of the
roots *k^ad (Pokorny #804 'to fall') and *sk(h)ai-(d/t)- (Pokorny
#1713, 'to hit, kick') seems to be restricted to Latin.
(The -ere is just the 3rd conjugation infinitive ending, if any
lurker's wondering, so the -r- seems to derive from -s-.)
Richard.