/Anatolian /-nt-/ and Greek /-nth-/

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

iffr762 at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu wrote:

>	Perhaps I am missing something here, but why should Anatolian
>place-names with /-nt-/ (or for that matter /-nd-/) be borowed into Greek
>with /-nth-/?

Probably because Anatolian t was aspirated, or sounded aspirated
to the Greeks.

>I suppose we could say that the form was originally
>/-ndh-/, but the Anatolian forms in /-nt/ are generally considered older.

The IE etymon is *-nt- (probably identical to the
Luwian/Slavic/Tocharian collective (plural) suffix *-(e/o)nt-).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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