From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 29672
Date: 2004-01-16
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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Latin pinso etc.
> like in ipsum > ins (individuum)?
This is an irregular and probably relatively late truncation (something that
very often happens to fixed phrases and compounds). The whole argument is
about nothing anyway. <$arpe> doesn't derive directly from the sigmatic
nom.sg. *serpe(n)s but from the secondary oblique stem *serpe- (*serpem). I
can't explain it more clearly than I already have done.
Piotr