Arpa Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Manuk, Mankik, Menu/Manu, Mini . We already know that "manuk" means child. It is from the native Armenian PIE root of "menu" to mean small, dimninutive. In the text the E in "menu" is inverted to denote that it was originally pronounced as the English E as "end" or as the A in "man". See also another variant- "manr", small. I don't know what to call it, is it "over compensation" , or as Nairi would put it-"hyper correction". Hyperbole, in any case, when we take a word like "menu/manu" which in itself means "small" and add a diminutive(endearing) suffix and get "manu-k". As if that (duplication) was not enough we go even further and compose words like "mankik/man-k-ik" (triplication?). Does it make the word even more diminutive and endearing? It probably does. Then what does it do the child? How much smaller can a child get? Not to forget the European (Latin) "mini". Eeni meeni myni mo, Catch the monkey by the toe! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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