On 2008-11-23 15:21, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
> Perhaps -ad < *-nt (neuter, without -s).
But all these nouns are feminines in Greek. The Slavic "small critter"
-nt- words are neuters, but *desINt- '(a set of) ten' (~ Gk. dekás) is a
masculine consonantal stem. I suppose an original neuter formation in
*-n.t became secondarily animate, but the details are not clear to me.
Piotr