Re: Aragonese, Catalan & Provencal -- long
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 4, 2003, 7:18 |
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Quoting Adam Walker <carrajena@...>:
> Hidy-ho, neighbors and neighborettes.
I can't answer anything about Ibero-Romance, but I'm interested in the fact
that -ette seems to function as a feminine ending in modern English - other
examples I've seen lately includes "dudette" (feminine counterpart
of "dude"), "geekette" (female geek), "daemonette".
How did this come into being? I guess the origin is the Frenchy dimunitive,
but the transition dimunitive>feminine seems non-trivial.
Andreas
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