Re: Latin animals' names -R (rhotacism?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

>
> I'm collecting animal names in Latin, and grouping them by ending.

There's a bunch of names in -R. Final R or S through rhotacism?

>
> salar "salmon" (< salire "to jump"?)
> olor "swan"
> turtur "turtle-dove"
> vultur "vulture"
> her "hedgehog"
> passer "sparrow", anser "goose" (<*hanser < *g^Ha:ns-is-)
>
> JS Lopes

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51784
r-suffix in Old-European river names:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/54315
-er in Lat. culter "knife"
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/59340
-ar in the word for "amber"
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/58966

It might even have merged in English with the -ari agens suffix, cf
non-inflecting-adjective forming -er in German, 'Berliner Luft',
'Frankfurter Kreuz'.


Torsten