[tied] Re: Panjabi and Hungarian cognates for dog?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:

> Just a few more look-alikes:
> Except Bulg., which was mentioned, the stem kuch- ia attested in

Slovenian

> and Croatian (kuche, kuchak, kuchka). In one account it is

supposed to come

> from Alb. children-word - kuch "dog" (maybe Abdullah could confirm

that?);

> allegedly there is also in Albanian a word "kut" used for calling

a dog.

> Also, no one mentioned Russ. kutja, kut'ka and kutenok. In

Sanskrit there's

> supposed to be a word like "kuk(k)ura" meaning "a dog".
>
> Mate

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Another (coincidental? or not?)lookalike:
Spanish 'cachorro' "puppy".
I've looked in three references and found 1) < Basque;
2) < "pre-Roman" (unspecified); and 3) < Latin 'catulus'.
Dan