Re: -o-poulos (was: WHATL calendar for next year (2013))
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 21:07 |
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Hallo!
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:10:14 +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 20:59, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> wrote:
> > Hallo!
> [...]
> > Which means that such names do not exist in the WHAT where,
> > if I recall correctly, Latin went extinct just like all the
> > other Italic languages.
>
> Well, there's AG πῶλος "foal", which might have produced something
> similar...
>
> (Note that MG -ου- often comes from an AG -ω-.)
I didn't know that. (Neither Ancient nor Modern Greek are
my specialty.) I see no reason why πῶλος could not play
the same role as Latin _pullus_, and of you have ω > ου,
you get -πουλος. Bingo!
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