From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 59037
Date: 2008-06-04
----- Original Message -----
From: "stlatos" <stlatos@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:15 PM
Subject: [tied] Latin sync., ik(o) (was: The oddness of Gaelic words in p-)
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> On 2008-06-03 19:47, stlatos wrote:
<snip>
The diminutive *ik+ had many uses, including forming the names of
small tools from verb roots. It had the nom. *i:x or *a:x and
sometimes IE languages mixed these together or with the weak stem in
*ik+. This is especially evident in dim. forming insect names (-ika:
/ -i:ka: / -i:k(s) / -a:k(s) / -ak / etc.).
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Patrick:
This is the type of egregious misuse of 'laryngeals' which led me to
exorcise them.
The early diminutive (or derivative) was -*i(:); this was supplemented
by -*kó, 'little'. It always has this form.
This is idle speculation (*x > *k) that has no credible argument behind it.
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