Singulative

I read in Gam & Iv that Gk. 'gunaikos' "woman" has been proposed to be
a collective with a singulative -k- suffix.

Aha.

So that's what the ubiquitous -k- suffix in Nordwestblock is:

eg.
Dan. padde "amphibian", Eng. paddock
Dan. tæppe, Germ. teppich "carpet"
Germ Made, Da. maddike, Eng maggot (metathesis?)
And in every one of those cases the simplex makes sense as a
collective (or non-countable mass).

Torsten