Re: Vaskonisches

From: tgpedersen
Message: 36222
Date: 2005-02-10

> > Another thing: -en is also the genitive suffix in Basque.
> Therefore a
> > putative *-en-ko could also be suffixed to nouns. PGerm. -inga
can
> be
> > suffixed to nouns too.
> >
>
> Add the locative suffix -an, and we get *-en-ko-an > *-ingen.
> Thus '<N>-ingen' is "in N's place".

Actually, placenames take -n in the locative in Basque. So it's
*-en-ko-n > *-ingen. Which looks even nicer.

Torsten