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Reordering the queries here ... At 02:31 31/01/2004, Muke Tever wrote: >On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:47:52 +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email> >wrote: > > Nom. Sing. hinges > > Gen. Sing. hingitis > > [...] > >One thing you might do is drop the 'h' (as sometimes happens, cf. >"anser")--|inges, -itis| looks much more Latinate. >[...] >Third off, it's possible Grassmann's Law might apply[1]; thus it could >possibly be |ginges| from *g(e)ngh-. >[1] e.g. |gradior|, etc. < *ghredh-... *if* that isnt the regular outcome >of *ghr; competing evidence is |ruo| < *ghre:u-. Though how common is that dropping the h-? Most of the results of initial PIE gh- in Latin that I can think of seem to retain initial h- .... *ghabh- > habere *ghiem- > hiems *ghor-to- > hortus *ghos-ti- > hostis Under such circumstances, I'm not sure about |ginges| < *g(e)ngh- either .... :/ Admittedly, inges/ingitis looks much more Latinate :) and it might be worth making an exception in this case :) >Second off, must it be a consonant stem and in -it- ? Well, I don't know if it *must* be a consonant stem in -it-, but given the Celtic evidence -- Gaulish *cingeto- and Old Irish cing (gen. cinged) -- and the many links between Celtic and Italic, it seemed to me that a consonant stem in -it- was reasonably appropriate. I'm not sure what a plausible alternative might be ...? At 02:43 01/02/2004, Costentin Cornomorus wrote: >If I could remember where I put Sihler, I could >comment more on *hinges. I'm not familiar with Sihler -- _New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin_? -- though it sounds fun :) But then, I'm rather new to Romance linguistics in general! Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]