Res: [tied] Re: The cat domestication happened more than 100,000 y

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 49212
Date: 2007-06-30

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> They are mainly onomatopoeic. Not sure as PIE roots. And if there
was a PIE root for "cat", it would refer to the wild cat, not the
domestic one, that came to Europe through North Africa (Latin
cattus<North African).

Onomatopoeic yes, but old too...

Why you make reference only to Latin here, talking about PIE?

Gaelic : pishyakan (Romanian pisica, Slavic etc...) is not from
Nord Africa...
Romanian : m^at,a is not from Nord Africa...

etc...

seems that in PIE languages
*mV-
*pV(s)-
*cVt-
we have three origins

Marius