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--- Capsicum skrzypszy:
> Could you help me with that question? I did not find a good
> candidate for the origin in Latin. Durich Chiampell used
> '-atium' he seemed to have invented himself to make Latin
> versions of Raetic topographic names. I would rather use
> '*-acium' or similar. He explaned the suffix as meaning that
> something is very big. Italian '-accio' is pejorative.
Hmm, no idea, to be honest. My first association would be "-aticum", but AFAIK that always becomes "-aggio" in Italian and "-atge" in Rhaetoromance. But perhaps there are some exceptions?
=> I am sorry for asking such things all the time.
No need for that. That's what this group is for, after all. And I hope someone else can come up with a better answer than I can at the moment (all my books on linguistics are about 1200 km from where I am now).
Jan