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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> 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
Sorry, it's rather improbable. For example Latini are simply "people
of Latium". I know of no *Latinici or *Laticini.
Osci, Opici, Volsci have no /-no-/ ending before /-ko-/.
In IE languages both /-no-/ and /-ko-/ suffixes are common in word
formation, they are not exclusive and it would be very strange a
similar "racial" use.
Regards
Marco