From: G&P
Message: 61598
Date: 2008-11-14
>The Gk. suffix -ád- seems to have originated as a
secondarily accented
>allomorph of *-n.t-
(Olsen 1989
I agree with the meaning, it’s clearly related to pallas, youth. But why isn’t it taken as palla-d-, with the same –d- suffix that creates the patronymics (Boreád- and so on)?
Peter