Suffix -ar in IE and Vennemann's Vasconic

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Rich and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Eduard Selleslagh <edsel at glo.be>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 1:20 PM

> [ Moderator's comment:
>   Latin -tor is cognate with Skt. -tar "agent, actor", Hittite -tar "idem";
>   the suffix is not "-or".
>   --rma ]

For whatever it may be worth, I believe that IE -*te/or is a combination of
the simpler elements -*te/o (collective/iterative) and -*(He/o)r(e/o),
'man'.

Both elements occur in AA so that there seems to be no need to assume a
substrate influence to account for them in IE.

Pat

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