From: tgpedersen
Message: 61898
Date: 2008-12-05
>Or endingless locative, with *-n# > *-r#
> On 2008-12-05 22:10, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > And here is the answer to your question: What is *xayw- doing in
> > this suspicious company (ie. with -er- and -ter- suffixes)?
>
> <aeternus> 'measured in aeons, everlasting' is derived from
> <ae(vi)ta:t-> 'age, long time' with a combination of suffixes
> similar to that found in <hi:bernus> or <hodiernus>. _Old_
> adjectives of that type contain -r- of various origin + *-ino-.
> E.g. <hi:bernus> reflects *g^Heimerinos (cf. Gk. kHeimerinós); the
> *g^Heimeri- part can probably be identified with the locative of
> *g^Hei-mn. (*g^Heimen(i), with dissimilation before another nasal).
> Younger, analogically formed derivatives like <modernus> (fromOf various origin, okay. You forgot 'ever' (of course of different
> <modo> 'just now') take on <-ernus> as a ready-made suffix.
> <aeternus> belongs to the latter category.