Re: [tied] Re: suffix -ko

From: Joao
Message: 29420
Date: 2004-01-12

I remember to read many years ago at an Encyclopedia Brittanica's entry that Italic people showed two different suffixes: -no and -co, and if no-people was conquested by a co-people, became -ni-co-, or ci-no, in the opposite way. So, sabi-ni, os-ci, opi-ci, lati-ni, etc
 
 
Joao
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Marco Moretti
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:39 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: suffix -ko

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@......> wrote:
> Is there common origin bewteen ethnomymic suffixes of Italic Osci
(<*Opsko-) and Germanic Cherusci (Heruskaz). Something like *-kos,
PIE "ethnomymic suffix"? Are there analogous suffixes in another IE
languages?

Are we sure that /*Ops-ko/ and /*Xeruska-/ < /*Kerusko-/ are formed
from IE roots? Etymological explanations are very poor in the case of
Osci: the name originally didn't belong to Samnites, but to a
submitted people of Campania, of uncertain origin; a variant Opici
was also used. Cherusci may be from an IE root for "stag", "deer",
still preserved in the learned English word "hart". But sigmatic
suffix is quite strange.

This *-ko- suffix is found also in Aurunci < *Ausonici and in Volsci,
but once again the roots are of uncertain origin.

Sincerely

Marco



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