Re: PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- & *ksud-ró

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> *ksud-ró <initial meaning: 'similar-with' an object resulted from
> a 'to crush/pulverise operation: 'very small'>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Skt. ks.udrá f (a:)
> - minute, diminutive, tiny, very small, little, trifling
> - mean, low, vile
> - wicked (said in joke)
> - niggardly, avaricious
> - cruel
> - poor, indigent
> - m. a small particle of rice
> [My note: Note that the rice is not obtained by a pulverisation or
> other 'to crush, to broke'-methods]

It is threshed, and broken rice is an undesirable by-product.

One thing that bothers me about the 'like but not the same' meaning is
that the -ro- disappears from the comparatives and superlatives of
adjectives, e.g. ks.odi:ya, ks.ódis.t.ha from this word.

Richard.