Re: Dissimilation of gW/kWVw to gVw/kVw

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@...> wrote:

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

wrote:

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> > 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.
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> 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 ....
>

There are many k's in Hungarian so it's clearly native.
On the subject of the reliability of *-(i)ko: what is that soundlaw
that (simultaneously) gives Dutch -tje (-je, -pje, -ie) and Flemish
-ke ?


Torsten