Basque <-ar>, <-(t)ar>

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"Jim Rader" <jrader at m-w.com> wrote:

>To the best of my knowledge, Latin has no independent suffix <-aris>.
> The adjectival suffix <-a:lis> appears as <-a:ris> when the base has
>an <l> in it:  <lunaris>, <familiaris>, etc., but in all other
>environments <-a:ris>:  <capitalis>, <mortalis>, etc., and note
><dualis> vs. <singularis>.  How the suffix <-a:lis> would have been
>handled by Basque I couldn't say.

Same as -aris: -ali(s) > -ari.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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