Re: Modern Greek patronymic suffix -POULOS

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
>
> In that connection, I have a further question. I read
> somewhere (I forget the source) that the suffix -KO
> present in various Slavic names is supposedly of
> Iranic origin. Is there anything to this?
>

If we deal with the diminutive -Uk-(o) here, then a connection with
the Baltic diminutive -uk- naturally suggests itself, and an Iranian
source for a Balto-Slavic morpheme (*-uk- < *-u-ko- with the PIE
diminutive suffix *-ko-) doesn't look plausible to me. But I'm not
sure.

Sergei