Re: [tied] -ch

On Thu, 12 May 2005 13:16:44 +0200, Pavel Adámek, IMA
<a.da_mek0@...> wrote:

>In Czech, expressive forms of family relations and personal names
>are derived with the suffix -ch [x] added to first syllable of the word,
>for example:
>bratr > brach, kmotr > kmoch,
>Petr > Pech, Matej > Mach ...
>
>I would like to know in which other languages
>such or similar suffix appears.

Not surprisingly, in Polish.

>My guess is that it is augmentative suffix -sko
>with expressive metathesis to -kso
>and RUKI change to [-xo].

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...