Re: Nori

On 2008-09-11 23:23, tgpedersen wrote:

> The Latin n-stems alternate -o:/-in-, the one in -io:/-io:n- I suspect
> they have arisen from the former by generalization. Traditionally the
> latter is taken apart into two separate suffixes -i- and -o:/-on-. I
> think something similar happened here. Cf. the -n- of PGmc. *sei-n-.

It's clearly/obviously a weak noun corresponding to the *swe- of
*swe-þeudo: '(our) own people', i.e. *swe/i-an- (possibly *swi-h3on-).

Piotr