Re: Portuguese buraco "hole"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> A *-Vk suffix is characteristic for (late) NWB, according to Kuhn, and *-k- for the ar-/ur- language (eg. the name of the ex-island Urk in the Zuiderzee), but they could of course be one and the same. A suffix -k- is characteristc of a group of verbs that stand apart in the Scandinavian languages (Da. dyrke, Sw. dyrka "cultivate", Sw. torka "dry", cf. torr adj. "dry").
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The suffix suffix *-a:ko- is frquent in Celtic (examples from Matasovic):

*kalj-a:ko- 'rooster'
*kell-a:ko- 'fight, war'
*mark-a:ko- 'horseman'
*must-a:ko- 'boy'
*stirr-a:ko- 'small animal, chick'
*ta:r-a:ko- 'tick, insect'
*torr-a:ko- 'pregnant'
*to-wiss-a:ko- 'chief, first'