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Etymology of Ibero-Romance "Pequeño" and Cognates



This isn't exactly urgent, but does anybody happen to have any idea as
to the origin of the Spanish word "pequeño" and all of its Iberian
correspondents? I've read in many places that their source is unclear,
but no sources seem to even suggest any potential connections, and
they do seem vaguely connected to many CL words that would evoke a
small stature or amount, such as "paucus" (though this would already
seem to be the precursor to that group of cognates represented in
Castilian by "poco"), or, even less practically speaking, "parvus."