Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> [...]
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> That's one reason for the debate between advocates of a separate
> substrate (myself, following Kuiper and Schrijver) and advocates of

a

> derivation from Kluge's rule *-T-n- > *-TT-, for any stop T (Piotr,
> Miguel); with the latter point of view, there is no substrate

language

> to explain. As you can see, I suspect the Chatti, because of the

name

> to have some connection to that substrate language; note the -tt- in
> the name, impossible for Celtic, Germanic and Italic, in which PIE
> *-tt- > -ss- (and in the other IE families > *-st-).

I have no etymology for your Khattoi/Catti/Hessen, but I should point
out that -tt- occurs in at least one inherited Italic word, the
plural <cette> of the Latin imperative <cedo> 'give here! out with
it! say!'.

Prosdocimi derives <cedo> from PIE *ke-deH3 and <cette> from *ke-dH3-
te; presumably the development *-dH3t- > -tt- is regular in Italic
though I can think of no other examples.