Talk:ericius

Length of the stressed vowel

Against L&S and Gaffiot, which support /ĭ/, we have the FEW and evidence from Romance, which support /ī/. Who's wrong? Or was there a lengthening at the Late Latin / Proto-Romance stage? Nicodene (talk) 22:14, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Closely connected is the question how one gets from ēr to ēricius or ērīcius. There seems to have been an unattested intermediate noun, either a lengthened form *ērex, ēricis (cf. sо̄rex), or a feminine derivate *ērīx, *ērīcis (cf. cornīx), and then the -ius noun seems to be a substantivized adjective. This is also supported by the noun ērīnāceus which obviously was an adjective in the beginning. Imbricitor (talk) 10:16, 14 August 2024 (UTC)