From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42809
Date: 2006-01-07
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:16 AM
Subject: [tied] protero-/hystero-
>
> I was wondering:
>
> if hysterodynamic nouns were actually composed of two nouns, namely
> a combining form + a proterodynamic noun, we could merge
> proterodynamic and hysterodynamic into one type.
>
> ex. in the family relationshp nouns
>
> *pax-ter
>
> *-ter appears as a suffix in the most varied contexts, and as -tar
> ('inhabitant of') in Basque and Iberian. Was it once a noun?
>
>
> Torsten
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Patrick:
If not in *p6ter- and *ma:ter, at least in *bhra:ter and *dhug(h)6ter, yes.
*a:ter, '(of the camp-)fire'.
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