Re: Dissimilation of gW/kWVw to gVw/kVw

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> English doesn't have a diminutive suffix, so it has to
> improvise with ad-hoc solutions. You cannot say man-ette,
> woman-ette, cat-ette or foot-ette...
>
> None of these restrictions apply to PIE *-iko-, which was
> clearly a native suffix.
>

This is a very interesting discussion. Do you guys have an opinion on
the Hungarian diminutive suffixes containing -k-, particularly -ke/-ka?
They've always struck me as pretty Slavic-looking, but then I'm an
amateur and that about exhausts my knowledge of Hungarian ....


Willem