Diminutives (jara: Re: Pro-drop)

 --- Dan Sulani skrzypszy:

>     Re: diminutives: The ones I am familiar with are: -le, (Channa >
> Channale) and -ke (Shlomo [Solomon]> Slomke)  both AFAIK to Hebrew via
> Yiddish. Where Yiddish got them from I don't know.
Well, "-ke" is distinctly Germanic.
Cf. German "-chen", Dutch "-je", Flemish "-ke".

>     There is also the older -chik which I don't hear anymore. This, I think,
> is also from Yiddish. Originally from a Slavic lang?
I think so. My guess is from Russian rather than from Polish.

Jan

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