The Greek Diminutive Suffix -loxo- -lOxtj-. 185 



•Acckoijc TiaTBa? ts xai vsavicrxou?. id. Resp. 2. 375 A Oiet o3v ti . . . 

 BiKcpspsiv cpuaiv ysvvaiou crxuXaxo? si? (puT^axYjv veaviorxou euysvoO? ; id. 

 Theag. 122 D -zi xaXov ovop^oc '^w vsavioxw ; Insc. Epid. Ditt^. 802. 

 118 (3d cent. B. C.) vsavtcrxov suTipsx^ 'rajx [j.opcpav. natdl(Jxi] : y] 

 TcaT? 'girl.' Ar. Ach. 1148 xaO-stibstv Msira xaiBCoxTj? ^ wpatOTtXTYi?. 

 naidiaxog : b izcai; 'boy' 'servant.' Philoxen. i. 2 azocko^ xaiBC- 

 (T/wGc: £v apyupsoc iz^oyoo) ©sptov iiziyzotv. 



82. There are two hypocoristic words in -icrxo- designating parts 

 of the body, in both of which the notion of beauty is prominent. 

 xof^iiaxu-.yioiiM 'hair.' Alcm. Parth. loi a B' sTOfjipw ^avS-a xojjioxa. 

 jiodiaxog : -kouq 'foot.' Anacreont. 28. 4^0 B' "Epoj? £/o)v [j.6}^i(3Bov 

 IIspi ToTc xa7.oT<; 7ioBt(7xoi? 'EBuoxs. Herond. 7. 94 Ou aoi BiBwaiv 

 Y] ayaS-Y] Tu/y], KspBwv, diaucai xoBicrxcov d»v IloS'Ot ts xY]pa)T£? (];atj- 

 ouatv; ib. 113 Osp' wBs tov tcoBictxov. 



83. Endearment for animals seems to be expressed by the t\\o 

 following words: xwiaxt] : y] xuwv 'bitch.' Ar. Ran. 1360 "A[j.a 

 Bs Aixiruvva izoixc, 'ApTsjj.ii; xa>>a Toe? xuvirixa?'^ ^yy^^' s^Q^stw Aia 

 B6[j.(ov TuavTa/Yj. TQayiGxog : Tpayo? ' he-goat.' Theocr. 5. 141 

 cppi,[jLa'70-£0 T:ao-a irpaYtoxo)v NOv a.yt)^cc, a call upon the goats to 

 help celebrate a victory. Possibly the -irpayioywO? of § 46 is a 

 childish hypocorism, though I incline toward deteriorative inter- 

 pretation. In Anth. P. 9. 317 Tpayi'Txo? is probably equivalent to 

 its primitive. 



84. In one instance we have a hypocorism in -tcrxo- used with 

 enallage, i. e. the endearment expressed by the suffix seems not 

 to be directed to the object designated by the word itself, but to 

 something in the context. This is leQaxiaxog : I'spa^ 'hawk' in 

 Ar. Av. 1112 Kav "kccyp^^zc, ap/jBiov sTQ- ' apTcdco-ai, ^rAXrin^-i Tt, 'O^uv 

 ispaxicrxov Ic, '^om; y/ipccq 6[jIv BoWo^sv. The birds are coaxing for 

 the support of the audience : "If you have been chosen by lot 

 for a little office and you wish to filch a little something, we 

 will give you a nice little hawk into your hands." 



VII. APPARENT CASES OF OTHER MEANINGS. 



85. Semantic syncretism with -ko-, which may have been in- 

 fluential in Germanic adjectives (§ 11) to give -isko- meanings 

 like ' coming from,' ' belonging to,' has had no further influence 

 on Gr. -1(7X0- than perhaps to assist in the development of 'di- 



1 If TiKidiffXT] here designates a servant the hypocoristic element is secon- 

 dary. 



^ The scholiast says: xvvLaxag' uvii xoZ lug xvyag. 



