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

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Friday, April 4, 2008, 16:16
>ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>Plus, there's an onomatopoetic _tendency_ in many languages to use >[i] to express smallness ~high pitch ~nearness etc. vs. [a, u] for >the opposites.
teeny-tiny, teeny-weeny & itsy-bitsy vs. humongous. 8-) Charlie

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Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>