--- "Joao S. Lopes" <
josimo70@...> wrote:
> What's the origin of -k- in diminutive suffix -culus
> (<*-klo-)?
There were (at least) two diminutive suffixes in
PIE and Latin created double-forms when it "sounded
right" apparently.
-lo-s
-ko-s
as in:
yuwen- "young"
yuvan- "young" Sanskrit, Avestan
iuvenis "young" Latin
yuw_nkó-s
yaouank "young" Breton
jung "young" German
iuvencus "steer" [<*young (bull)] Latin
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