Re: [tied] *ekwos and friends

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
Most likely the oldest item in your

> list is the hypocoristic (or shall I say
> hippocoristic) vocative <kos'-kos'> 'hossie-hossie',
> and the rest is derived from that.

*****GK: And would you say that as hypocorisms go it
is absolutely impossible for this vocative to have
developed from *ekwos ?*****

>
> Piotr

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