Re: cahorro

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 68039
Date: 2011-09-12



From: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 5:35 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: cahorro

 


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "t0lgsoo1" <guestuser.0x9357@...> wrote:
>
> >>If catulus were stressed on the 1st syullable, you'd get catlus >
> >>cachu- > cachorro.
> >
> >But you've got also vetulu- > vetlu > veclu > viejo, so this won't
> >work.
> >
> >Hovewer, Bouda ("Baskisch-Kaukasiche Etymologien"), quoted by
> >García de Diego ("Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico"),
> >derives cachorro from a Caucasian root *katS- 'young of dog and
> >other animals', also the source of Spanish gazapo and dialectal
> >Portuguese cachapo 'young rabbit'. In today's framework, this would
> >correspond to PNEC *k'wymts's'(w)a:
> ><http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi
> >single=1&basename=/data/c\
> >auc/caucet&text_number=1135&root=config> 'puppy'.
>
> Cf.:
>
> Russ. Кутëнок “puppy”
> Bulgarian куче "dog"
> Macedonian куче, кучка
> Serbo-Croatian kučka, kuče
> Slovene kuža
>
> Hungarian kutya “dog”
>
> Iranian kuti
> Ossetian kuz
>
> Uzbek kuču (Kirgiz, Kazakh similar); Turkic küçük [küčük] "little,
> small"; "cub, puppy"; cf. Hungarian kicsi ['kiči] "little, small".
> Mongol gičin
>
> Romanian:
> (1) (diminutival) căţel [k&-'tsel] "small dog" (< catellus <
> catullus?);
> (2) (diminutival, interjection) cuţu ['ku-tsu]
>
> Sicilian guzzu (sp?)
> Friulian kuzzu (sp?)
> Ital. cucciolo

Time for Rick's Danish lesson ;-)

Dansk Etymologisk Ordbog
'køter ["mutt"] en;
ænyda. kytter, no. kjøter;
ligesom ty. Köter lånt fra nty. köter,
der enten er udviklet af germ. *kautāri,
[which is developed from ...]
besl. med kå ["jackdaw"] (s.d.),
[related to ...]
el. (med egl. betydn. 'bondehund') hører til nty. kot 'hytte',
[or (with actual sense "peasant dog") belonging to LG 'kot' "cot"]
modsv. [corr.]
oldnord. kot 'lille hytte', da. dial. I. kåd 'bolssted',
oldeng. cot 'hule, leje', eng. cot 'hytte',
egl. 'hul' og er besl. med II. kutte.'

Torsten

Tak, nu jeg talar lille Dansk!