Re: [tied] Latin testu:do and tortuca

On 05-01-03 11:01, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> It's from the u-stem <testu> 'vessel, earthen pot, lid', related to
> <testa>, hence *testu:tus 'shelled, having a shell', like <cornu:tus>
> 'horned' from <cornu>. The voicing of *-t before the -o:/-in- suffix is
> a regular affair in Latin, one of the facts presented by Olsen as
> support for initial *h3- in the "Hoffmann suffix" (*-h3on(h2)-,
> according to her analysis).

Oops, that was a little hasty. The derivation must be more complex,
since thematic *testu:tus doesn't fit as the intermediate form. Still, I
believe we should start with <testu->, whatever the source of the
dental, and the voiced -d- has to do with the presence of the Hoffmann
sufix.

Piotr