Open AccessOn the origin of the Latin decad-morpheme <i>-gint-</i>
Author(s) -
Kenneth Shields
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1992.v60.i2.468
Subject(s) - morpheme , linguistics , philosophy
In this brief article it is proposed that the problematic -g- of the Latio decad morpheme -gint- derives from a specifically Latin manifestation of the voiced sandhi variant of the Indo-European non-singular marker in *-k. This theory is based on some recent research concerning the evolution of the category of number and the system of numerals in Indo-European