Re: [tied] the cat

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From: "P&G" <petegray@...>
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Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] the cat


> >the latin "felis" in the group with "p:s"
>
> The "real" Latin for "cat" is Gattus or Cattus - hence the
Romance and other
> forms. Only in "posh" Classical latin is Felis used.
>
> peter

[Moeller] My remarque was about the word "felis" and not the
another one. Hence romance languages? Mmmm, in at least one of
the romances there is not Gattus or Cattus but pisica:-)
By the way, in romanian, for a big, nice, fet male cat, there
is another worth and this is "cotoi".But this seems to have
the slavic stamp of "cot" and not the latin "cat" or
"gat".Otherways the name for a young male cat or a non so well
builded male cat is "pisoi".
I wonder about how this word in greek and albanian should
be...