Re: bitch

You lost me here --tik has no voiced D, unless you're
talking about an underlying IE *dig, which looks weird

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

> --- 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)
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>
>
>

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