Re: More *-ak

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> (continuing from
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/message/3194)
>
> If the individuating/collective suffix *-k(/*-x) also appears in
> Lat. 'dux' (du-k-s), it would have been difficult to re-separate the
> stem *du- from the verb, since there was no syllable boundary

between,

> and the verb was analogically reshaped to duc-. Is this the same

root as

> that in duellum > bellum "war"?

consider also the possibility that the -k- of -fex influenced facio:


-ak is a common suffix in Slavic too, with semantics
(individuating/collective) that match.



Torsten