[tied] Re: Your historical timeline

> I'd say rather that they borrowed a Gaulish suffix
> signifying 'belonging to' or the like, Latinized it as
> <-acum>, and used it rather extensively. Mind you, I don't
> see why Alexandru finds Roman use of <-dava> so improbable,
> but the cases aren't altogether parallel unless there was
> more general Roman use of <-dava>.
>

But the Roman use of <-dava> was exactly the question, which is why
one can't use it as a premise as if the question had already been
answered.

Torsten