Re: bitch

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

> --- 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)

>
> You lost me here --tik has no voiced D,

I didn't say it had.

> unless you're talking about an underlying IE *dig,

I am.

> which looks weird

And doesn't occur in PIE because of the constraint on roots I mentioned.


Torsten