From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 17335
Date: 2003-01-02
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Subject: [tied] Re: -poulos and -putra
> I thought that Modern Greek "-poulos" = "-'s son" was derived from
> Ancient Greek "po_los" = "foal".
Unlikely. The earliest examples (such as <ornitHopoula> 'chicks' and <alektoropoula> 'cockerels'), refer to birds, and Ancient Greek /O:/ gives modern /o/ rather than /u/ (<ou>).
Piotr