Citerar taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>:
> * caeruleancentaur said on 2006-08-22 22:26:40 +0200
> > I'm looking for a word for "baby/infant" in a natlang that has not
> > evolved from "indistinct speech" (baba > baby) or from "not speaking"
> > (in-fans > infant). Does anyone know of such?
>
> Norwegian "spedbarn", a baby prior to walking. I assume the "sped-" is
> the same as "sped" meaning simply "small, slight in size", but for all I
> know it might have something to do with truffles...
I've always taken for granted that Sw. _spädbarn_ is from the adjective.
Andreas