Back to Attila

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:36 PM -0500 6/20/07, Joseph Salmons wrote:
>At the risk of pushing an off-topic thread farther from American
>dialects:

As has been remarked on before, this is the [American [Dialect
Society]], not the [[American Dialect] Society], although the
brackets are implicit.  So no off-topicness to be pardoned for.

LH

>Yup, it is related (and, yeah, it's 'child'). That's
>regarded as a Norse loan word, I think.
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>On Jun 20, 2007, at 12:21 PM, sagehen wrote:
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>>>And -ila is a common diminutive/hypocoristic suffix with names
>>>(including the just-mentioned bishop/translator, connected to 'wolf')
>>>and beyond (like barnilo, 'little kid').
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>>>Joe
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>>Is Scottish "bairn" related?    ( Or is that kid as in goat?)
>>AM
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