Re: Brugmann's Law

> [mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Piotr Gasiorowski
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:13 PM

> The suffix sounds Ukrainian/Belarusian to my ear, but I'm
> vaguely familiar with this particular derivative through the
> eastern dialects of Polish.

It's hold a Balticism -- either a substratal one (but not very old, since
Baltic /u/ yielded East Slavic /u/, not /U/) or even a Lithuanism spread at
the time of the Great Dutchy of Lithuania (< Lith. diminutive suffix
-(i)`ukas).

Sergei