Re: "l" and "n" suffixes in some IE ethnonyms?

Hello,
Suffixes -on and -ul are common in Lithuanian language:

Burba > Burbonys,
Gaila > Gailioniai,
Gelia > Gelionys,
Gudas > Gudonys,
Kairys > Kairionys,
Kikys > Kikonys,
Mechius > Mechionys,
Niaura > Niauronis,
Sabas > Sabonis,
Eiga > Eigulys,
Geras > Gerulis,
Grazhus > Grazhuliai,
Zhygis > Zhyguliai,...



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea@...>
wrote:

>
> I've been trying to figure out the PIE forms and developments of

some suffixes that seem

> to crop up in numerous IE ethnonyms. There are various names with

endings reflected in

> (mostly) Latin sources as -ones or -oni (perhaps depending on

whether they are treated as

> n-stems or o-stems? or whether they were adapted from Greek

sources?), as well as some

> appearing as -ani. Names with -ones and -oni seems to crop up in

Italic, Celtic, and

> Germanic contexts; I'm less sure about the distribution of -ani?
>
> What's the origin here? Is this from the Hoffman suffix -h3o:n?

(That would give a long

> /o:/ in Latin, I think, a short /o/ in Celtic by analogical

leveling, an /a/ in Germanic

> reinterpreted as an /o:/ by Latin writers by analogy?).
>
> Meanwhile in Italic contexts, there's this -uli suffix that keeps

cropping up. I'm thinking

> this might be a PIE or Proto-Italic -elo:s > -olo:s > -uloi > -

uli:? Might this be related to

> other Latin derivational suffixes in -ilus, with the same original -

el- becoming Latin -il-

> under different phonological conditions?
>
> I'm guessing around at this based on eyeballing names in classical

sources and a very

> limited knowledge of the linguistics. (Are them, BTW, any good

resources online or in

> print that discuss PIE derivational suffixes?)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>