From: stlatos
Message: 68401
Date: 2012-01-23
>That makes no sense. It's probably from a compound with * dHGY-kYè < * dHaxYs.kYà = make/do (as in Latin facio:, etc.). The kY>kYH by xY is followed by CH > C, then late V-deletion (of xY>u>0) creates duk>dk>tk > tt/kk (or something very similar).
> At 3:14:51 PM on Sunday, January 22, 2012, gprosti wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > Does anyone happen to know the origin of the suffix -kk-
> > in Icelandic/Old Norse (as seen in hækka "rise, ascend" <
> > hár "high", fækka "lessen" < fár "few" etc.)?
>
> According to de Vries, <fækka> is the result of assimilation
> in an earlier form <fætka>, which is actually attested.
> There is also a <smækka> 'to make small', from *smætka, from
> <smár>. He takes these to be the result of adding a <-k->
> suffix to the neuters <fátt> and <smátt>.
>