Re: eH- themes, 5th Declination Latin, IE cognates?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> I recently argued in favor of *kenh1-, which I believe covers practically everything Burrow placed under *kan-, and supersedes my old post cited above.
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To me, it looks like a "cousin" of *g´enh1- 'to bear a child; to be born', which I link to NEC *ts'än?V 'new'.

> > But IMHO your semantical proposal (that is, deriving 'dog' from 'small
> > animal') is good, in despite there's no IE etymology for this word.
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> That is not "my" proposal, and it has an obvious parallel
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I don't think "obvious" would be right here. I can't see any near relationship between canis and catulus, nor I don't think they derive from the forementioned root.

> in Umbrian <katel> 'dog'; Latin <catulus> 'whelp' is less specific.
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The use of 'whelp' (< 'young animal') applied to dogs is rather common, e.g. in Galician-Portuguese the femenine form of can, ca~o 'dog' is cadela 'bitch'. But by no means it has to be taken as a general rule.