From: alex
Message: 29074
Date: 2004-01-04
> 04-01-04 09:17, alex wrote:why not V.Lat. *frundia ?
>
>> Any other posibility in your eyes?
>
> Alex, you're stirring up a lot of ado about nothing again. -nz- in
> substratal words comes from earlier *-n3- [-ndz-] from various
> sources, including *-ndj- (as in the 'foal' etymon), but _never_ from
> *-ns-. Late Latin words with [-ndj-] show the same development.
> <frunzã> clearly derives from something with *-ndj- in it, and there
> no earthly reason to question the derivation from <frons>/<frondis>
> 'leaf, foliage' via V.Lat. *frondia.
>
> Piotr