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110 NOUN FORMATION.
[117.
Denominative Nouns.
117.] Secondary Suffixes. The following are the chief
Secondary or ( Denominative ' Suffixes. (Note that -o and -t\
of
the Primitive Stem disappear before Secondary Suffixes beginning
with a vowel*.)
-O, -"i;
as 5ljca-to-?/tffj ap/iou-irj a joining) apQ^-io-s friendly,
aiSoio-s (for aZSor-io-s) reverenced, yeXouo-s (probably to be
written yeAw-io-s) laughable, &P-LO-S in season, 0-0^-177 skill,
(TKOTT-iT? watch, dvayKa-ir] necessity.
-LO, -eo (chiefly used to denote material, especially the
animal which furnishes the material of a thing) ; e. g. ftnr-eto-s,
ravp-io-$, aly-Lo-s, (36-io-s and /3o-eo-?, K.vv-tr], \d\K.~fio-s and
~)(dh.K-to-$, Kvdv-zo-s, bovpdr-zo-s, ^)A.oy-eo-j, r]yd6-o-s (from
aya06-s), 8cu6aA-eo-?, &c. These must be distinguished from the
Adjectives in which eio stands for O--LO, as re'Aeto-s (for
to-s), ovtibtio-s, 'Apyeto-s.
-eL' j
iirir-ev-s horseman, apivT-ev-s one who does lent, xa
Lp-v-s, von-tv-s, "2^Lv9-v-s, &c.
all from Nouns in -o.
-LOT], -ia8r| ; in patronymics, as 'Arpe-tSrj-s, Or; A rj-'Cabrj-s,
'Ao-KX?;7rt-a6r]-s. Cp. the compound -18-109 ( 118).
-DO, -po ;
as \Lyv-po- $ shrill, bvo-cp6s dark ; y^iya-po-v.
-IfJUO ',
aoib-ifjio-s matter of song, pop-ipo-sfated, &c.
-VO, -IKO ;
as (frauvos (^aecr-) shining, p(3evvos (epe^Seo--) ^af/?:,
epavvos lovely ;
-Ii'oj
-7JVO ;
riy-Lvo-s oaken, tlap-ivo-s of spring, &c.
oTTcop-tro? of autumn, dy)(ioT-iz>os.
7TT-riv6s flying (TTT-(T-).
-CTVVO, -aunrj ; yrjOo-o-vvo-s joyful ; linro-aijvr) horsemanship, &c.
"6Z^T (for -FZVT), Fern, -eo-o-a ; vAr/-ez;r-a, Fem. -uA.7?-ea-0--a
wooded, bLVTj-evT-afull of eddies, Aeipto-err-a /i/fo ^^ ^7y, &c.
-^/CO ; only found in opav-iK.6-s orphan, vapOtv-iKri virgin, and
a few Adjectives from proper names, as
Tpco-tKo-s, 'A)(at-tKo-9,
ITeXao-y-tKo-s. In these words it is evident that there is no
approach to the later meaning of the Suffix.
* This is probably not the result of an ' elision/ but analogous to the weakening
of a Suffix (cp. 114, i). Thus the Stem of