Re: potto

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister wrote:

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> > > ttipi \ ttiki \ txipi \ txiki = small
> >
> > I'm afraid you forgot Spanish chico and related Romance forms. 

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> Traditionalist posit Latin ciccus as the origin of chico.
>

I'm afraid this is rather absurd, if not plainly ridiculous. I've proposed instead a root 'goat, kid' found in IE, Kartvelian and NEC. This kind of metaphoric shift is typical of pastoralist societies. See also Celtic *bekko- 'small', cognate to Italian becco 'buck, ram'.