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Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 1898, Vol. 29
The last few years have been fruitful in new or old, but newly championed, theories of the origin of the Gerundive. Conway (classical Review, V. 295 sq.) took up a theory of Curtius, Which compared Lat. -ena'o with Skr. -am'ya or rather with an imaginary -anya Dunn (ib. VI. I sq., 264) criticised the inconclusive character of Conway's equations, and advanced a rather complex explanation, according to which regezzdns was extended from an infinitive regwen by a suffix -a'o But 'regnen is none too probable. Havet (me'moires de la Socie'te' ale Linguistique, VI. 231 sq.) ad vanced the proposition femndus (pepo'pevoc. This equa tion was advocated by Thurneysen (kn/en's Zeitse/zrzft, XXX. 493 sq.) at some length. Its crying defects on the phonetic side are brie?y stated by Stolz (i. Mz'iller's Handout/z a'er K lassise/zen A [termmswissensc/zaft, 112. The advocates of this theory must also Charge themselves with explaining the development of signification and syntax in the gerundive.
Two theories are associated with Brugmann's name, though the first of these (v. American journal of P/zz'loloo VIII. 441 sq.) is properly to be Charged to the account of Job. Schmidt (v. Bersu, Die Gutturalen, I This theory derives -na' of the gerundive from -tn and compares Lat. Secundu.
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