[tied] Re: root *pVs- for cat

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 6:14:45 PM on Sunday, July 1, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <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?
>
> It's still productive in Sc.Gael.

So these
"
schwed. mdal. pysk pyske „kleiner mißgestalteter Mensch",
Schweiz. pfosech „Knirps"
und vielleicht auch engl. pixy „Kobold"
(germ. *pusik- *pusak-).
"
and Basque mutiko (< mutil)
are unrelated?

Kuhn use the *-k suffix to identify NWBlock toponyms and *-ak(um) to
identify Celtic ones, although the NWBlock one in appellatives appears
also as *-Vk. It would be interesting if they were of the same origin.


Torsten