Re: [tied] Some new etymologies

On 2006-06-08 02:08, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> Even if the -tar suffix is native, it
> was sufficiently similar to Lat. -to:r- (with the same function) to take
> its place in loans.

On second thoughts, inherited *-to:r would have ended up as -tër, so
-tar(e) may simply represent contamination between VL -tore and -ariu-
when the latter was added to a base with final /t/, cf. sekretar(e),
qytetar(e), vullnetar(e), etc.

Piotr