From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 37495
Date: 2005-05-02
PIE *motH-/l- [moth, catterpillar, woodworm] Germanic math-(moth) Russian mot,mol' (moth) Sanskrit ma:tkuna(bug) Albanian molë (moth)(<Slavic?)
Joao SL
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
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