Re: IE models (was: Ligurian)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

>
> As you know, nesko (vel sim --trying to remember back 20 years) is

Basque for "little girl"

>

Actually, it's neska '(unmarried) girl', seemingly a diminutive with the
suffix -ka. So niska is seemingly a diminutive from Iberian nis´
'woman' (?), a Wanderwort found in several language families (NEC,
Uralic, Semitic).

> and in some regional forms in Spain means "mushroom"
>

This is níscalo or mízcalo (Lactarius deliciosus).