Bogdan Giusca (disc) 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@...
some well informed people will tell you this is a recent word. No "ã"
( beside the last one), no "S", etc.;it should be seen as an onomatopea
(pis-) with Slavic suffix "-ika".
Check the archives. It was discussed here some time ago together with
"mâTã" (Alb. maca), "cotoi" (Slavic kot-), motan ( no other paralels,
unknown etymology). The fact "motan" & "mâTã" are related appears as a
wishfullthinking to some people since just "mâTã" has a correspondent in
Albanian, its masculine counterpart (motan) being a gift from the
Dominus Deus , thus with explainable unknown etymology.
Alex