Re: bitch

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> So is French biche somehow related? Is it possibly
> related to *bukkaz?
>
> There is a Scandinavian word tyk (sp?) for "bitch",
> which superficially resembles English tyke "child,
> brat" and dyke "lesbian (derogatory)". Is this just
> coincidence?

Is this Sw. tik "bitch"?
Cf.
Kuhn, Fremder t-Anlaut im Germanischen
"
17. ti:k- (und tu:k-?) 'Hündin', in an. tík und hd. m(und)a(rt)l.
Zauche / Zauck, wenn aus tu:k-.
"

So a substrate word (like all roots in Germanic in TVT- where T =
unvoiced stop, since PIE has no roots *DVD- where D = voiced stop)


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