Re: Pilovese in the Romance Language Family
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 3, 2008, 4:47 |
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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:29 AM, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> "Pequeno" comes from a different root, the Latin "paucus" meaning
> little or few. English derivatives are paucity, Paul, paraffin, poor,
> foal, filly, pony, puerile, pedo-. The PIE root is pou- or pau-.
I think it's a bit misleading to say that "pedo-" is a derivative of
Latin "paucus", at least, if it's the morpheme I'm thinking of (which
is from Greek "pais, paid-"). They may have the same PIE root, of
course (I don't know).
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>