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==yellow yolk==
Anyone out there know what the -ca is doing (and additional examples of it) in the Old English word geoloca 'yolk', derived from geolo 'yellow'? [[User:Tibetologist|Tibetologist]] ([[User talk:Tibetologist|talk]]) 09:38, 16 July 2012 (UTC) 

: The following table is an empiricist or positivist note of the relevant '''Translations''': 
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 Slovak: {{t|sk|žĺtok|m}} "yolk"
 
 Slovene: {{t+|sl|rumen}} "yellow"
 Slovene: {{t+|sl|rumenjak|m}} "yolk"
|}
: You may note the suffix ''-ca'' of Old English {{term|geoloca}} "yolk" from {{term|geolo}} "yellow" looks like the eastern ones. 
: --[[User:KYPark|KYPark]] ([[User talk:KYPark|talk]]) 23:49, 19 July 2012 (UTC); Expanded the table --[[User:KYPark|KYPark]] ([[User talk:KYPark|talk]]) 03:11, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
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::The Slavic suffixes are diminutives. Because of Grimm's Law they, and the Kurdish, can't be related to the -ca found in Old English. The non-Indo-European forms are not demonstrably related. —[[User:Angr|'''An''']][[User talk:Angr|''gr'']] 12:29, 20 July 2012 (UTC)