[tied] Re: The Hoffmann suffix

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> On 05-02-19 12:21, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Did you just say "the distribution of non-nasal stems as

placenames

> > and nasal stems as personal names", as Kuhn did, or something

else?

>
> Sorry, I misuderstood your wording the first time. I simply mean

that

> forming personal names by means of a nasal suffix (individualising
> *-o:n) is a very common device in the IE languages, and that there

are

> placenames with the Hofmann suffix.

True, but my point was that since weak and strong nouns are present
in a substate of Germanic, there is a added uncertainty in the
analysis of the Hoffmann suffix, since there are atr least two
sources for it: the word in which it occurs may be Nordwestblock or
straight Germanic.

>Could you quote some of Kuhn's
> examples of "strong" toponyms vs. "weak" anthoponyms so that we

can see

> what particular "identical roots" are involved?
>

I don't have them present here. I'll get back to it.


Torsten