172 IVa/ler Petersen, 



tive at all got placed in a situation which implied contempt for 

 the thing designated, particularly if some deteriorative adjective 

 like cpau>,oc or some other deteriorative in -icnto- was in the neigh- 

 borhood, it could be reinterpreted as a deteriorative,^ at least for 

 the time being. Thus Y>>auxLoyvOc seems to be the ordinary des- 

 ignation for a certain fish, having been formed with the notion 

 of similarity (§ 36 A), but may have been felt as a deteriorative 

 in Philem. frg. 4. 27 (1. 21) Ei B^ D^ajjov ccpzioic. oy.apov y) y, t?]? 

 tVttixy;? rXauxi'Txov, co Zz\j c-wTsp, y) '| "Apyo^^ xa::pov, . . ."ATcavTs? ot 

 oayovTs; lysvovT av Osoi. Perhaps nuidiaxri in the meaning ' pros- 

 titute ' (§ 35) was another word in which the deteriorative mean- 

 ing came in secondarily. Uaviaxoc ' an image of Ilav ' is placed 

 in a contemptible situation in Clem. Al. 53 (§ 39 A). yjcMviaxog: 

 yy:m (§ 40) may have been felt as a deteriorative Apollod. frg. 

 4. 453 i!/i(7T6v ytTO)vi(7xov W svBsBuxa? and Aeschin. i. 131 si yap 

 'zic, Gou Toc xo[j.d>a TaOira />.aviaxia 7;Ept£}.6[j.evO(; xai -roue [j.a>vaxo'JC 

 /iTO)v'lcr/.ouc . . . Boi-/] tlq zoc(; /sTpac Toiv BixacToiv, oTjxai av auTotj? . . . 

 aTzopTjCsci eiTo avBpo? sits yuvaixoc siArz-paatv sTO'YJTa. 



V. -II,KO- AS A DIMINUTIVE SUFFIX. 



55. The diminutive use of Gr. -iT/.o- has a parallel only in some 

 Slavic dialects, e. g. Slov. jarisce ' a lamb a year old,' or repisce 

 ' little turnip.' According to Belie, Arch. f. si. Phil. 23. 179, how- 

 ever, this use is developed from the deteriorative within the Slavic 

 itself, and consequently has no direct connection with Gr. -loy.o-. 

 The latter must therefore have developed independently from the 

 use of the suffix to designate similarity, or arose by semantic 

 syncretism with I. E. -ko-, which forms occasional diminutives in 

 several groups, e. g in Skt. putraka-s ' little son,' kundika ' little 

 pot,' or in 0. Big. sym-kt ' little son,' kamentci. ' little stone,' 

 often in conglutinates like Latin -culo- in homunculus ' manikin,' 

 Germanic -linga- in O. Icel. gaeslingr Engl, gosling, or Lith. -uka-s 

 in parszukas ' little pig,' 



56. If diminutive -loxo- developed by syncretism with -ko-, the 

 transition types were inherited by the conglutinate along with the 

 other types of usages, ^ and we therefore still find traces of the 

 way in which the notion of small size developed from similarity, 

 no matter when. As with -tov the transition took place in words 



1 Cf. Gr. Dims. 127 ff. 

 ^ Cf. § 45 f . 



