Re: Albanian inherited lexicon - Part I
- From: "Douglas G. Kilday" <fufluns@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:40:10 -0000
"Colin Fine" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
> Douglas G. Kilday wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand the contrastive suffix -tero is found in <dexter>,
> > <sinister>, and Greek <nerteros> indicating a direction, so it seems at
> > least possible that *aus-tero- originally meant 'on the shining side',
i.e.
> > 'on the sunny side of the sky', 'on the south'. If that is the correct
> > derivation, its isolation in this meaning (in Latin only) would seem to
> > indicate an archaic relic, otherwise superseded by the association of
*aus-
> > with the dawn and the east. Perhaps that is what Calvert Watkins had in
> > mind in the second edition.
> >
> Is this the same suffix that means 'one of two', in 'alter', 'deuteros',
> 'other' and Russian 'vtoroi'?
Yes. Palmer's view is that this suffix originally had contrastive or
separative function. The application to directions is straightforward, so I
am inclined to think that L. <auster> indeed originated this way.
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