From: stlatos
Message: 68445
Date: 2012-01-29
>So, assuming a relation of pateo: with petánnu:mi , met. of e-a: > a-e: could have been included, instead of a derivative in *-exY+, though it's hard to tell.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
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> > I think the only semantic connection is 'wide, broad, spread out' w 'wide (field), earth (goddess)', such as Litavi: Gaul; Plataiaí G; pr,th[i]ví:- V S; ptsí = measure for fields Kamv; and formally the suffix is the very common "god-maker" *-xY-n.o- .
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> Another bit of ev. for the equivalent meaning 'wide' for deriv. of *pet-x+ and *pelt-x+ in at least Italic is:
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> Patavium L; Padua It;
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> a place-name orig. prob. just 'field, land', like Plataiaí , etc.
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