HISTORICAL GRAMMAR OF OLD PRUSSIAN

HISTORICAL GRAMMAR OF OLD PRUSSIAN
f.), acc. pr`butskan (III) ‘eternity’ < *pr`bûtiskan (PEÞ III 339 f.), acc.
teisiskan (III) ‘honesty’ and teisîwingiskan (III) ‘idem’ (PEÞ IV 190),
swintiskan (III) ‘holiness’ (: swints ‘holy’) etc.
Suffixes with a consonant -g-
* 72. Pr. suf.*-ag` is represented in (E) karyago ‘military campaign’
= *kar’ag¯É (PEÞ II 121 f.), witwago ‘water-hen’ = *vitvag¯É (PEÞ
IV 256), but Pr. suf. *-ig` is represented in (E) wedigo ‘adze’ (PEÞ IV
228).
* 73. Pr. suf. *-µng- (for its circumflex cf. van Wijk KZ LII 151
f., Endzelîns SV 51) occurs in many adjectives derived with it from:
a) substantives, cf.: nigîdings (III) ‘shameless’ (cf. Lith. gêdingas
‘shameful’, PEÞ III 188), (ni)qu`itings ‘(not-)wishful’ = *-kwãitings
(PEÞ III 189), ragingis (E) ‘deer’ < *ragµngas ‘idem’ (< ‘horned’,
PEÞ IV 7);
b) adjectives, cf.: labbîngs (III) ‘good’ (: labs ‘idem’, PEÞ III
10), naunîngs (III) ‘novice’ (: nauns ‘new’, PEÞ III 172), wertîngs
(III) ‘worthy’, wertîwings ‘idem’ – the latter having a complex suffix
*-µving- (PEÞ IV 231), etc.;
c) verbs, cf.: aul`ikings (III) ‘restrained’ (PEÞ I 116),
pomettîwingi (III) ‘subordinately’ with a complex suffix *-µving- (cf.
above and PEÞ IV 322), etc.
Suffixes with a consonant -t-
* 74. Pr. suf. *ta (< IE *-to) resp. *-t` is represented in ordinal
numerals (cf. kettwirts ‘fourth’), in passive past participles (cf. * 264) and
in nouns, e.g.: anctan ‘butter’ (PEÞ I 80), *aukta- ‘high’ (PEÞ I 113 s.v.
auctairikijskan), meltan (E) ‘meal (flour)’ = *miltan (PEÞ III 125 f.), sosto
(E) ‘bench’ = *s¯Ést¯É (PEÞ IV 140), etc.
* 75. There are also a number of substantives in *-t`, some of which
possdibly coming from *-et-, cf.: giwato (E) ‘life’ = *gîvat¯É (= Lith.
gyvat$ ‘idem’, PEÞ I 376), bruneto (E) ‘hazel-hen’ = *brûnet¯É (PEÞ I
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