Valki, Ulfki, Ormki, Oki(long hooked-o; <PM *Anuka/ko), Gjuki(long u;
<PN *Gebuka/ko), Arnki, Sveinki, Sulki(long-u; from the word for a
pillar, post Sul-, fem. sula, often a holy object), Bjar(n)ki, Moki
(long hooked-o) - Lokarr tells us how this makes his folk's name
smaller, and that some of these names, like with those in -ir, are
not otherwise borne by his folk with the suffix. Note that Bjarki can
refer to the tree, but as an arachaic name is more likely to be a
from Bear. Arnki (from the Swedish) shows preserved -n-. Here ON has
lost all of it's feminines, at least in attested sources. The suffix
did survive, however, in later fem. nicknames, like Steinka for any
girl with a compound name in Stein-. From PN we get the ON women's
name Olka(hooked-o), Little Ale (PN Aluko), or Little Good Luck, a
very nice ON women's name. Like mascs. Oki and Gjuki(Little Ancestor
and Little Gift), it has no form without the suffix in ON. One has to
be very careful here in looking for lost names, because few things
took this suffix, and if they took a diminuative at all, it could
have been a different one, meaning the same thing. Lokarr tells us
that not all his folk make their names smaller in the way, but that
some do it this way: Hrafsi, Harsi(long-a), Elfsi, Bersi, Mosi(long
hooked-o). Here we see that two names, Bjorn and Mor, are also
attested with this diminuative, but others only with it, like Hrafsi
(Little Raven), and Harsi(Little Hairy One), Elfsi(Little Ancestor).
Here we have one attested feminine, Yrsa(short-y), Little Ourox-Cow,
but others must have existed. Lokarr tells us that his folk also do
the same in the following way: Oli(long hooked-i) and Sorli(hooked-
o), Little Ancestor and Little Armed-One, Warrior. Here we have one
attested feminine again, from the Swedish: Birla, Little She-Bear,
from the stem-alternate fem. name Bera. Lokarr tells us that, like
Oli and Sorli, we have some longer ones: Vifill(long-i), Vinnill,
Gestill, Maevill, Myndill. Vifill, something like Little Warrior,
perhaps relating the English wave, to wave(weapons), is from *wiv-
(long-i), attest in PN Wiwaz, ON *Vifr - about w>f, see also the name
Narfi <Narw-, English narrow. Vinnill, Little Worker, a name taken
from a so-called sea-king, but undoubtedly once usd by more regular
gomes. Likewise, Gestill, Little Gest, and Myndill, Little
Protection, about which compare masculines in -mundr, and the Runic
Swedish masc. Mundi. These decline strong in ON, but are diminuatives
from the PN weak declension in -ila. The length here differentiated
these from the likes of Oli and Sorli, and all ON femines here would
end up as -la (<*lo). Now the meat is cooked, and we go to the board
with our host Lokarr and his family, alongside our new friend Dali. -
Konrad