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Capsicum skrev:
There were really several men who had names ending in '-aci'. I am not talking about places or families. Look. He calles himself Leonaci. "Ego Leonaci uir uenerabilis presbiter in hanc pagina cunfermationis facta in Filipert bono animo meo cunsensi et suscripsi."
Then it's probably a family/clan name (surname), which may derive from place names or personal names. I don't know if *Celtic* could use the -ak- suffix to derive family /clan names from personal names, but it doesn't seem unlikely. For that matter Vulgar Latin could of course put the suffix to new uses once it had borrowed it! Compare the common Italian surname suffix -i, which actually derives from the ablative plural of names in -ius. Thus a Giovanni Valenti < Ioannes (a) Valentiis, 'John of the Valentiuses'. /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "C'est en vain que nos Josu�s litt�raires crient � la langue de s'arr�ter; les langues ni le soleil ne s'arr�tent plus. Le jour o� elles se *fixent*, c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)