Re: [tied] Slavic *-os (*-om)

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:25:10 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>Germanic and Basque both loaned an agent suffix -ari from Latin
>-arius (which is not an agent suffix), persumably *-ario by the time
>of loan. Question: what happened to the final -o ?

Basque -ari was borrowed from Occitan (Gascon) -ari.
Castilian has -ero < -airo, with metathesis.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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