Re: [tied] -poulos and -putra, Iberian -ez patronymic

It's interesting. Pullus (fem. pulla) is origin of French poule "hen", in
Portuguese we have poleiro (<pullarius) "roost". Pullus also means "foal",
<*pwol-no- *pwL-no, allways in the root 'child'.

In Iberia there is the patronymic ending -EZ (Spanish), -ES (Portuguese),
whose origin is very polemic: Gothic, Basque and Latin origin is proposed.
Rodrigues/Rodriguez "son of Rodrigo" < Gothic *Hro:thareiks, genitive
*Hrôthareikis

Joao Simoes Lopes

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Subject: Re: [tied] -poulos and -putra


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> Subject: Re: [tied] Modern Greek patronymic suffix -POULOS
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> > Latin pullus 'chick, young fowl'. In post-Classical Greek <-poulo> (pl.
<-poula>) was a neuter diminutive suffix (forming names of young birds, then
of other animals, then of human offspring), and was finally employed as a
masculine family-name suffix (<-poulos>).
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> I forgot to add that <pullus> is ultimately connected with Indo-Iranian
*putra- 'child, son' < *putlos (thus also with <-putra> as an Indic
family-name element), though the semantic development of the Latin word in
Greek is much later and independent.
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