Re: -o-poulos (was: WHATL calendar for next year (2013))
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 19:56 |
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Hallo!
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:49:39 +0000, R A Brown wrote:
> The use of the suffix -poulos appears to be of Peloponnesian origin and
> was a diminutive ending. It came to be used to denote 'son of', 'young of.'
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> But the ultimate origin is from colloquial Latin _pullus_ which was
> originally a noun denoting the young of a animal and, in particular,
> 'foal' and 'chick.' But even in the Classical language we find it
> applied to persons as a term of endearment 'darling, chick, duck, dove',
> (US) 'baby' etc. It easy to see how a colloquial term of endearment,
> presumable heard among soldiers and merchants, came to get itself
> attached to nouns as a diminutive suffix.
Which means that such names do not exist in the WHAT where,
if I recall correctly, Latin went extinct just like all the
other Italic languages.
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