Re: Pilovese in the Romance Language Family

>>caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
>>"Pequeno" comes from a different root, the Latin "paucus" meaning
>>little or few.  English derivatives are..., pedo-.
>Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
>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).
My source is the American Heritage Dictionary which gives, in the Indo-
European Root appendix, the entry "pou. also pau," as having a variant
form *pu, *pau, boy, child with a suffixed form *paw-id- in
Greek pais (stem paid-), child.

Charlie