HISTORICAL GRAMMAR OF OLD PRUSSIAN

HISTORICAL GRAMMAR OF OLD PRUSSIAN
Secondly, it had a primary diminutive meaning with which have
been derived: gunsix (E) = *gunzik is ‘swelling (bump)’ (PEÞ I 422 f.),
instixs (E) ‘thumb’ = *instik is (PEÞ II 29 f.), kuliks (E) ‘(small) pouch’ =
*kulik is (PEÞ II 299 ff.).
Thirdly, it could mark male animals in respect to basic feminine
appellative, cf. lonix (E) ‘bull’ = *l¯Énik is (derived from a polonism fem.
*l`nî ‘doe’, cf. PEÞ III 79 f.).
Finally, with this suffix were derived substantives from adjectives,
cf. acc. pl. swintickens (III) ‘saints’ = *svintikans (from adj. *svinta- ‘holy’,
cf. PEÞ IV 177), prçisiks (III) ‘enemy’ = *pr…eisik is (PEÞ III 351 f.).
It was Pr. suf. *-îk (> *-Ÿk in an unstressed position) with which
diminutive forms of substantives were derived in dialects of the Catechism,
cf.: acc. gannikan (III) ‘woman’ (PEÞ I 323), malnijkix (III) ‘child’ =
*malnîkik(a)s (PEÞ III 106), acc. wijrikan (III) ‘man’ = *vîrikan (PEÞ IV
246), acc. grîmikan (III) ‘song’ (PEÞ I 410), acc. madlikan (III) ‘prayer’
(PEÞ III 94), stûndiks (III) = *stûndik(a)s ‘while (moment)’ (PEÞ IV 163).
* 68. There are also diminutive forms with a suf. -uk- in Prussian:
gaylux (E) ‘ermine’ = *gailuk is (PEÞ I 315 f.), wosux (E) ‘he-goat’ =
*(v)¯Ézuk is (PEÞ IV 265 f.), mosuco (E) ‘weasel’ = *mazuk¯É (PEÞ III 152).
* 69. It was Pr. suf. -inîk- / *-enîk- (= Lith. dial. -inyk-, cf. Ambrazas
DDR II 120 ff.) with which substantives meaning “possessor of a feature”
were derived:
a) from other substantives, cf.: dat. pl. auschautenîkamans (III)
‘debtors’ = *auðautenîkamans (PEÞ I 121), balgniniks (E) ‘saddlemaker’
= *balgninîk i s (PEÞ I 131), dat. pl. -algenikamans (III) ‘(day
-)labourers’ = *algenîkamans (PEÞ I 188 s.v. dein`algenikamans),
grîkenix (III) ‘sinner’ < *grîkenîk(a)s (PEÞ I 409), laukinikis (E)
‘landowner’ = *laukinîk i s (PEÞ III 48), medenix (E) ‘woodman’ =
*medenîk(a)s (PEÞ III 118 f. s.v. medenixtaurwis), pogalbenix (III)
‘helper’ = *pagalbenîk(a)s (PEÞ III 305), stubonikis (E with -o- instead
of -e-) ‘barber-surgeon’ = *stubenîk i s;
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