-r(a)

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Morpheme
Language: Raetic, Etruscan
Type: inflectional
Function: plural

Attestation: avaśuerasi, φuter


Commentary

Corresponding to the Etruscan animate plural in -r (Rix 1985: 125 f., Wallace 2008: 49 ff.). As in Etruscan, auslauting a was lost through apocope, as documented by φuter, while it is preserved in the morpheme syntagma -ra-si in avaśuerasi.

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