Re: Child

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 10:42:51 AM on Monday, September 15, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
> wrote:
>
> > The On-line Tocharian dictionary by Adams has a word 'boy,
> > youth' starting with k.
> > It does not show up properly on my computer :
> > the consonantic skeleton is k_l_sk- : ka¨lyske ??
>
> The word is Toch. B <ka:lys'ke>. He says that it has the
> form of a diminutive, possibly from PIE *kal- and related to
> ON <halr> 'man (poet.)', OE <hæle(ð)> 'man, hero', OHG
> <helid> 'man, warrior, hero', and ON <ho,ldr> 'free peasant;
> man (poet.)'.
>
> Brian
>

We have also Romanian copil /kopil/ 'child' <-> Albanian kopil 'id'

Based on the known rules the single possible reconstructed
PAlb./Dacian? form is
*kwa:pil-

This could lead to *kwa:lpil- < *kwe:lp- too...

I still think that this is in link with English child too and/or
with Toch. B <ka:lys'ke> even the phonethism don't help me

Any ideea?

Marius