Re: [G] and [g] and PIE voiced plosives

--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: [G] and [g] and PIE voiced plosives
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 9:11 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > You missed hiccough /hIk@.../, sometimes spelled hiccup
> >
>
> The OED has this to say about that:
>
> "Hiccup, sb. Forms: A. 16th cent. hicke up, hikup,
> 16th-17th hickop,
> 17th hickhop, hecup, 17th-18th hiccop, 17th-19th hickup,
> hick-up, 17th
> hiccup; B. 17th hiccough. See also HICKET, HICKOCK
> [<Hickop, hickup>,
> appears, from its date, to be a variation of the earlier
> <hickock>,
> HICKET q.v. <Hiccough> was a later spelling, app.
> under the erroneous
> impression that the second syllable was <cough>,
> which has not
> affected the received pronunciation, and ought to be
> abandoned as a
> mere error.]"
>
> "Hicket, sb. Obs. Forms: 16th hickot, hyckot,
> 16th-17th hicket, 17th
> hicquet, hiquet, hickett, hycket. [One of the earlier forms
> of
> <hiccup>, the other being <hickock>, both app.
> with a dim. formative
> <-et, -ock>. The echoic stem <hick> appears
> also in MDu. <hick>, Du.
> <hik>, LG <hick>, Da. <hik>, Sw.
> <hicka> hiccup, M.Du. <hicken>, Du.
> <hikken>, Da. <hicke>, Sw. <hicka> to
> hiccup; also Bret. <hok, hik>
> (Littré), F. <hoquet> (15th cent.), Walloon
> <hikéte>, med. Lat.
> <hoquetus>(Du Cange), hiccup, F. <hoqueter>
> (12th cent. in
> Hatz.-Darm.) to hiccup. The Eng. <hicket>
> corresponds in formation to
> the Fr., and is identical with the Walloon. Assuming this
> to be the
> earliest form, we haave the series <hicket, hickot,
> hickock, hickop,
> hiccup(hiccough).] Early form of HICCUP sb."
>
> "Hickock, sb. Obs. Forms: A. 16th hyckock, 17th
> hickock, hickcock,
> hiccock, hicock, hick-hock, (hick-hoe). B. 16th hitchcock,
> hytchcoke,
> (hitchcough), hichcoke, hichkoke, hichecock, hichecocke. [A
> parallel
> form to HICKET, the difference being either that of two
> diminutive
> suffixes, or merely phonetic, as in the later <hickop,
> hiccup>. The
> explaination of the variant form in <hich-, hitch->
> is not clear; it
> is perh. to be sought in the dial. equivalence of
> <ch> and <k>] An
> earlier form of HICCUP sb."
>
> So we see the apparent origin of Alfred Hitchcock's
> last name.
> Considerably less ennobling than one would hope for someone
> of his
> stature, I would say.
>
> Andrew

Although some deluded individuals would claim it's from Hitch "Richard" + cock "diminutive". I'm sure they also claim the last name Badcock is from Bad "Bartholomew" + cock "diminutive", thereby ruining a good tale.