Re[2]: [tied] Re: Child

At 10:42:51 AM on Monday, September 15, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

> The On-line Tocharian dictionary by Adams has a word 'boy,
> youth' starting with k.
> It does not show up properly on my computer :
> the consonantic skeleton is k_l_sk- : ka¨lyske ??

The word is Toch. B <ka:lys'ke>. He says that it has the
form of a diminutive, possibly from PIE *kal- and related to
ON <halr> 'man (poet.)', OE <hæle(ð)> 'man, hero', OHG
<helid> 'man, warrior, hero', and ON <ho,ldr> 'free peasant;
man (poet.)'.

Brian