Re: Hittite 'hartagga'

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 68908
Date: 2012-03-10

W dniu 2012-03-10 20:20, ufnkex pisze:

> Are Serbian hrčak, Slovak škrečok, and Latin cricetus the closest
> kinship? (Along with the Slavic loanword variants in Hungarian
> hörcsög and Romanian hârciog. /H-RČ-G/)

<Cricetus> is neo-Latin, actually the Latinisation of a Slavic word,
most likely Czech kr^ec^ek. The Slavic words are onomatopoeic, and not
very old either. The final -k- in all of them is the diminutive suffix.

Piotr