From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 49256
Date: 2007-07-02
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"It's still productive in Sc.Gael.
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> At 4:28:42 AM on Sunday, July 1, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:
>> [...]
>>> As for the -eag suffix; it appears in several of the
>>> Celtic cognates I've found to Kuhn's list; it seems to
>>> correspond to the typical NWBlock -Vk-suffix
>> The suffix is <-(e)ag> ~ <-(e)ág>; the <e> is written only
>> when it follows a 'slender' consonant. In Sc.Gael. it's a
>> feminine diminutive suffix, corresponding to the OIr
>> masculine diminutive suffix <-óc>; both are borrowings of
>> the Britannic hypocoristic suffix that appears in Middle
>> Welsh as <-awc> (Welsh <-og>), from PCelt. *-a:ko-
>> 'pertaining to (X)' (whence also Gaulish <-acos>). The
>> native Irish reflex of *-a:cos is the adjectival suffix
>> <-(e)ach>.
> What's it doing on a non-Celtic word?