Re: -phóros, -phorós, -fer

From: squilluncus
Message: 44201
Date: 2006-04-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:
>
> >>> (3) exceptionally in <vir>.
> >> What would cause such an exception?
> > Great frequency of use, most likely.
>
... and we've got vi:rus i, poison, which is surprisingly neuter.
Of course it's a rhotacism of wi:sos and originally a neuter type
genus generis. But why has the word adopted the inflexion of a
masculine thematic?

Might vir vir-i be a dissociation from vi:r- ?

Lars