Re: Ligurian ending "-asco"

On Jun 29, 1:32 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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mb
["They" also say in some places that it could well be an adjectival
ending (like, say, -ish). They don't really seem to have much to bite
into]
...
of Anza through a valley called Anzasca, so the
ending -asca must have the meaning of pertaining to:
the valley pertaining to the river Anza is the Val Anzasca.

As said at the start
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