[tied] Re: final -s, IE

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:

> In Portuguese there is also vestiges of nominative in names,

Carlos, Domingos, Marcos, Paulos (archaic, recorded at XVIIth
century; modern: Paulo)

> In Slavic the final -s is dropped *-os > -U, but I dont know the

intermediary steps.

>

BTW where does 'Paco' come from? Kuhn had a long list of names in Pak-
from Latin, Frisian, Old English and 'Ubian' (names on epitaphs
found in the Rhine region).

Torsten