Re: More on Italian briga, brigare, and brigante

At 3:15:19 AM on Sunday, September 21, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

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

[...]

>> I've seen it in some contexts that suggest that it might
>> be in origin a shortening of the diminutive <schoentje>.

> That process is news to me; do they cite other examples?

There is no 'they'.

Brian