Re: [tied] Re: Estonian Swedish

At 2:29:47 PM on Friday, December 29, 2006, squilluncus
wrote:

[...]

> Torsten might also add ´"kisse" (Scania "ki:se"), pussycat
> with a hard /k/. My answer is that this is due to it
> coming from an interjection "kiss, kiss!" when calling a
> cat. Interjections tend to fall out of norms.

Norwegian also has the interjection,as <kiss>, also with
[k], if I'm not mistaken. I believe that Ic <kisa> 'kitty,
puss' has the expected [k^], though.

Brian