Re: Rom. pisica and Sard. pisittu

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Bogdan Giusca (disc)"
<disclist@...> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I was searching the etymology of Romanian "pisica" (cat) and

noticed

> that the only European language that has a similar term is
> Sardinian: "pisittu".
>
> Are the two words related and how could it be possible to be

without such a

> word in Latin nor in any other Romance language ?
>
> Best regards,
> Bogdan mailto:disclist@...

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My first thought was that Eng. 'pussy' isn't too dissimilar.
Then checking Buck's "Synonyms", he has "Rum. 'pisica', deriv.
of 'pis' a call-word for cats similar to Lith. 'puz', LG 'puus',
Du. 'poes', NE 'puss'.
Finally, I experimented and found 'pis' only works with a bit of
food.
Dan