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Wow, I googled this one to death and never saw that thread-- crazy! Big thanks, Scotto! BTW, I'm really intrigued by the noun endings in your Pilovese-- are the masculine plural endings the result of an unusual derivation (say, from the dative), or is that the result of a vowel shift? --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Scotto Hlad" <scott.hlad@...> wrote: > > In the development of Pilovese, I wrested with this as well. The word becomes pichinh [piâ??kinj]. The etymology is â??obsc poss from pikk + innu, a childish pronunciation of pic-ul-inuâ?? > > 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] >