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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: -sk
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 05:24:57 GMT
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In article <38umdj$clh@gordon.enea.se>,
Erland Sommarskog <sommar@enea.se> wrote:
>Rich Alderson (alderson@netcom.com) writes:
>)Erland Sommarskog (sommar@enea.se) writes:
>))(A "Swede" in Swedish in "svensk" where -sk is a general origin suffix.
>))(Related to the Slavic -ski?))
>)
>)Cf. German deutsch < *theutisko-.  The North Germanic languages didn't 
>)develop
>)a [S] from *sk:  cf. also English shirt vs. skirt <- Norse.
>
>Yes, I know that, but it doesn't really answer the question
>I posed in passing. Is this -sko related to the Slavic -ski
>or not?

Yes.  The Slavic form is -isk-, where short -i- becomes a palatalization
-- "mjagkij znak" -- or disappears in the modern languages, e.g. Polish Polski
(not Pol/ski), pan'ski, etc.  This is exactly the same as Germanic -isk-.
The suffix also appears in Greek (-iskos, as in Asteriskos and Obeliskos:
the Gaulish suffix -rix "rex" is unrelated :-).

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