Re: [tied] suffixes in -ario-/-ariu-

On 2007-01-12 00:33, Brian M. Scott wrote:

> Watkins, Amer. Her. Dict. of IE Roots, says that Latin
> <-a:rius> is from Italic <-a:s-io->, whose first element is
> obscure, and whose second represents a PIE relational
> adjectival suffix *-yo- 'related or belonging to'.

Intervocalic *-sj- seems to have developed into Lat. -ii-, as in *kWosjo

> cuiius, so -a:rius must be from *-a:s-ijo- (which looks like a

"doubly thematic" derivative of *-a:s-o-, whatever that is -- I'll think
about it). Non-Latin Italic -a:sio occurs e.g. in borrowed proper names
like <Vespa:sius> and in Umbr. plenasier (loc.pl.) 'Ides' <
*ple:na:sijo- 'time of full moon' (Weiss).

Piotr