Re: [tied] Latin masculine names -a

>>What's the origin of masculine a-ending names in Latin? IE?
>I've always assumed a connection between <agricola> and the Slavic type
>of OCS vojevoda 'army-leader' < *-wodH-ah2 (originally a possessive
>compound, 'having the leadership of the army'?). .. Some
>occupational a-masculines (scri:ba, etc.) perhaps derive from
>collectives

Just for tidiness, I mention the obvious connection with Greek occupational
first declension nouns in -a:s / -e:s, parallel to the Latin occupational
nouns on -a, from which some -a names are derived (e.g. Agricola).

Peter