Meier Michael. -ίδ- Zur Geschichte eines griechischen Nominalsuffixes

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975. — 98 S. — (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 23).The author organizes his material by derivational type: derivatives to geographical names, personal names, feminines to masculines, and concludes that all such nouns are feminine, and that they all denote belonging to some category or other. He further holds that in origin -id- was formed to personal and place names. From here it is but a short step to the conclusion that the suffix is not of Indo-European origin. He buttresses this conclusion by the twin facts that -id- occurs in personal names in Messapic and Latin as well, and that -id- finds no congenial cognates in Indo-European languages: he supposes (but does not provide further argumentation) a substrate language located perhaps in Epirus.