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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
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Proto-Italic * put-sle-los → *pussillos followed by degemination via the so-called "mamilla rule", from Proto-Indo-European * put-lo- ( “ son ” ) , historically standing in relation to pullus ( “ young of an animal ” ) as a diminutive. Latin cognates include pusillus , putillus ( “ tiny ” ) , pūsus ( “ boy ” ) , possibly Vulgar Latin * pūtta ( “ whore ” ) . Further cognate to Faliscan putellio ( “ little son ” , nom.sg. ) , Oscan puklum ( acc.sg. ) , Paelignian puclois ( dat.pl. ) , Sanskrit पुत्र ( putrá , “ son, child ” ) , Avestan 𐬞𐬎𐬚𐬭𐬀 ( puθra , “ child, son ” ) , Lithuanian putýtis ( “ little bird ” ) , Latvian putns ( “ bird ” ) , Old Church Slavonic пътица ( pŭtica , “ bird ” ) . For the correspondence pullus :: pusillus compare paullus :: pauxillus , vēlum :: vēxillum .
Compare pisinnus , pitinnus ; see also putus , a ghost word . A connection of the stem *put- with puer is difficult to establish.
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