Re: [tied] Latin suffix -klo- > -culus, origin?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
> To: "Cybalist" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:18 AM
> Subject: [tied] Latin suffix -klo- > -culus, origin?
>
>
> > What's the origin of -k- in diminutive suffix -culus (<*-klo-)? It

was

> > frequent in n-stems and s-stems, and even r-stems:
> > homo, homunculus
> > portio, portiuncula
> > carbo, carbunculus
> > mas, masculus
> > *crepus, crepusculus
> > opus, opusculus
> > mus, musculus
> > os, osculus
> > corpus, corpusculus
> > frater, fraterculus
> >
> > Is it from names like *ox, oculus (*okWs, *oKw-lo-) ?
>
> ***
> Patrick:
>
> Finally, a PIE suffix that is actually unambiguous.
> *-k, 'child of, little'.

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Nice to have something unambiguous for a change.
So what's the evidence for an IE *-k, 'child of, little'? If
Patrick has it, not something completely irrelevant in Egyptian or
Sumerian, I apologize in advance for my skepticism.
Dan Milton