Re: [tied] Re: root *pVs- for cat

Trask and, I believe, Vennemann, spoke about /k/. I
believe Venneman sees it as a relic of pre-IE
Basque-like substrate.
But it also exists in Slavic, usually as /-sk-/ and
probably goes back to IE. Basque may have picked it up
from Celtic


--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- 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
>
>
>

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