II.— THE GREEK DIMINUTIVE SUFFIX -IIKO- -EKH- 



I. ITS RELATION TO THE SAME SUFFIX OF OTHER LANGUAGES. 



I. The diminutive suffix -iay.0- -ioxyj-, whatever we may say of 

 its ultimate origin, was fully developed in all its principal meanings 

 at the earliest periods of the Greek language as known to us. 

 Though not found in Homer, it does not foUow that its develop- 

 ment was post-Homeric, nor are we justified in saying that its 

 origin was later than "diminutive" -lov for this reason. Its ab- 

 sence in Homer is explained by the Aeolic ground- work of the poems. 



Insert in 

 Connecticut Academy, Transactions, Vol. XV 111. 



ERRATA. 



P. 141 line 12 from below read -isko- (Lith. -iszka- O. Big. 



-isko-) instead of -iszka- -bszka. 

 P. 145 line 10 after "Germanic" insert: and the Prussian. 

 P. 149 line 10 substitute -- for ^ in both instances. 

 P. 157 line 12 read scarcely for scarcely. 

 P. 196 line 11 from below read ^VupaviYj? for Aupavia?. 



it is quite uncertain just what its meaning was, or whether it formed 

 derivatives only from adjectives or also from substantives or whether 

 it was itself an adjective or substantive suffix or both, since the 

 languages in which it occurs vary widely in these respects. Thus 

 in Greek and Keltic it forms only substantives, in the Germanic 



1 On -LGXQ- in the Aeolic and the earliest Lyric poetry see p. 201 f. of 

 the writer's Greek Diminutives in -lov, Weimar 1910, cited after this by 

 the abbreviation " Gr. Dims." 



^ Cf. Brugmann, Gr. 2. i^. 501 ff. 



^ Cf. Brugmann, op. cit. 502. 



