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[Slavomír Čéplö]

Actually, it is more likely that this "ogonek" comes from Polish where
"ogon" means "tail" and "-ek" is the diminutive suffixe, hence
"ogonek" = "little tail" as featured in Polish letters Ąą and Ęę.
The Russian "ogonek" (written огонёк and pronounced [ɐgɐ'nʲok]) is
derived from "ogon" (огонь [ɐg'onʲ]) meaning "fire".
And it would appear the newspaper still exists http://www.ogoniok.com/ :)

bulbul

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:07 PM, William J Poser <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> The use of "ogonek" for the subscript hook is also a bit of a mystery
>  to me. The word means "spark" or "flash" in Russian. There used to be,
>  and perhaps still is, a Communist newspaper in Russian called "Ogonek",
>  and I remember reading its Spanish namesake "La Llamarada".
>
>  Bill
>