--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>
> [snip]
> > Deletion of initial consonants occurs in one phase
> of
> > toddlers' language development, so it seems
> likely. FWIW
> > Swedish babytalk also has _ytteliten_ which is
> even smaller
> > than _pytteliten_! :-)
>
> And smaller yet is _yttepytteliten_!
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.
Adam
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