Re: [tied] *ekwos and friends

Absolutely. A Slavic hypocorism would be based on a Slavic reflex of
*ek^wos, not on "something similar" to the PIE form. As Miguel
pointed out, the hypothetical Slavic development of *ek^wo- would
have to be *(j)esv- or *osv-. One could imagine **os', **os'ka or the
like as a diminutive abbreviation (even so, the unattestation of the
full form would be an embarrassment), but this doesn't account for
<kos'-> with it's <k->.

Piotr

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Most likely the oldest item in your
> > list is the hypocoristic (or shall I say
> > hippocoristic) vocative <kos'-kos'> 'hossie-hossie',
> > and the rest is derived from that.
>
> *****GK: And would you say that as hypocorisms go it
> is absolutely impossible for this vocative to have
> developed from *ekwos ?*****
> >
> > Piotr