The Greek Diminutive Suffix -laxo- -lOxtj-. 203 



any productivity is -igxio'^, for which cf. Gr. Dims, in -tov 251 ii.'^ 

 One can hardly say that a conglutinate -loxaptov is to be abs- 

 tracted from vsavtGxapiov or 7ratBi<7xapiov, or -tcntuSptov from veavioxti- 

 Bptov, which are rather simple diminutives in -apiov and -uBpiov from 

 non -diminutives and faded diminutives in -igxo-. -I'TxiBiov, however, 

 occurs in Stephaniscidium, which is used as a hypocorism for 

 Stephanium in Plant. Stich. 740 : te expetimus, Stephaniscidium, 

 mel meum. Whether there was an intermediate *lTecpavi(7>crj, or 

 whether -kt/iSiov is an actual conglutinate, and if so, whence it 

 originated, we cannot decide from the material on hand. 



1 To the words there given should be added two more without an inter- 

 mediate form in -laxo-: yvpatxiaxcoy (Hes.) ' a Uttle or young woman or 

 girl ': yvi't] ' woman ': iXecpavTiaxioy (Ael. H. A. 8. 27) ' a little elephant ': 

 iXigxtg. Also' two more with forms in -laxo- -.n a 1 6 lax 10 v (Hes.) * a little girl '; 

 naiSiaxT] \ iqinodicxiov {= cu/d-Qctxtof) AB. 404. 19 { : TQinodiaxog), in which 

 -toy is an exponent of similarity. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XVIII. 14 September, 1918. 



