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In the development of Pilovese, I wrested with this as well. The word becomes pichinh [pi’kinj]. The etymology is “obsc poss from pikk + innu, a childish pronunciation of pic-ul-inu” I did quite a bit of Googling on this. If you have access to the conlang archive, there was a lot of discussion about this in April. You can see the archive starting here: http://archives.conlang.info/ka/bhuadho/ Scotto -----Original Message----- From: romconlang@yahoogroups.com [mailto:romconlang@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark G Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:23 PM To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com Subject: [romconlang] 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." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]