From: Michael Smith
Message: 39561
Date: 2005-08-08
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Smith"as
> <mytoyneighborhood@...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the (reconstructed I assume) Germanic nominative plural
> > equivalent of the latin -i, such as occurs in tribal names such
> > Alemanni, Marcomanni, Marsi, etc.? In other words, what wouldtribal
> > names such as these have been in Germanic?Romans
>
> -o:z before the reduction of unstressed vowels kicked in. The
> correctly identified the Germanic a-stems (masculine) with theLatin
> 2nd declension.and
>
> > Also, would the Latin -ones ending in names such as the Teutones
> > Semnones have been -aniz in Germanic.equivalents
> >
> > And finally, what would the Germanic nominative singular
> > of Latin -us, -es and -is such as occurs in personal names havebeen?
>
> -us = -az (rarely -uz)
> -is = -iz
>
> Richard.