What's the origin of Greek declension -ad, female in dryas, naias, Pleias, Hyas, Pallas, male in Arkas ?
Is it just a consonantal suffixation of an a-theme? an as-theme?
For example
Pallas, gen. *Palla(h)os, to prevent the -ao-, insertion of a -d-?
d-feminine seem to be linked to nt-masculine themes, cf. Pallas (g. pallados) x Pallas (pallantos); Hyas x Hyas; Pleias x Atlas
Or would this d-theme be cognate of Semitic feminine suffix -t ?
dryas "dryad" could be derived from drys "oak, tree", but other names seem to be Pre-Greek.
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