From: Gordon Barlow
Message: 66388
Date: 2010-08-06
I
was thinking about some PIE reconstructions, and encountered a curious
recorrent suffix, that I humbly don't know if it's been well studied: Many
manes
of edible substances have a neuter suffix -t, please take a look and send me
your comments:
JS Lopes
My personal speculation (not based on any academic background, let me hasten to say) is that –t is an adjectival suffix present in a huge number of words in several Aryan languages and therefore in PIE. In English, it often appears as –ate or –ite, but it has (I speculate) a great many dialectal variants, from –ish to –ic and –y.
Gordon Barlow