From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 64671 Date: 2009-08-09
On 2009-08-09 20:28, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
> Of course. The "f" in infans is analogical, instead of *imbans, like
> infusio, infidelis, etc.
But analogical to what? <-fa:ns> is a bound form, not a free-standing
word. Of course *bHh2-ant- must have existed at some point, but it's
precisely in obscured formations that otherwise lost forms survive and
_resist_ analogical reshaping, cf. English <unkempt> or <uncouth>.