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Day: February 21, 2011

κατσούλι “kitten”: where did the cutesy /ts/ come from?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Mediaeval Greek, Modern Greek
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Tom Recht had a simple question in comments the other day, which admits of an almost simple answer. There is a catch, in that there is no clear phonological reason for what has happened, and I offer an unconvincing guess at it. Tom Recht’s question: I’m curious about the word κατσούλι, which is intriguingly similar […]

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