Re: Pequeno (was Re: Pilovese in the Romance Language Family)

Adam Walker skrev:

> So we're talking pytteliten = bitty
>
> ytteliten = itty
>
> and yttepytteliten = itty-bitty
>
> I'd guess these are the very same words except that
> Swedish affexes liten (little) to the end and English
> doesn't.
>
Yeah, I didn't think of that!

Of course the Swedish has an actual [y],
and no word _pytt_ of suitable meaning
to derive it from (unlike English _bit_).

I guess they derive from VL PUTEUS, though.


/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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   "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
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   ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
   c'est qu'elles meurent."           (Victor Hugo)

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