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  1. 05-23-2008, 01:43 #4
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    Default Re: The Casse In History

    Quote Originally Posted by Elmetiacos
    If we have a Latin plural Cassi, it's pretty much a certainty that the original word would be a Celtic o-stem. The singluar would be *Cassos from a stem *kaso-. The Romans Latinised Celtic (and also Greek) -os endings to -us endings and gave them an -i plural.
    How can you be certain of this? Has any scholar supported such an assertion? Is this an educated guess based on examples only? How would you apply this to the plentitude of -i endings on Germanic tribes and all others? the same o-class IE nominative plural? Not a single tribe with the typical Latin -i ending has any other root than o-class?
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