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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Bogdan Giusca (disc)"
<disclist@...> 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 ?
Some lexemes from indic; note the Kota lexeme: pi.c 'cat':
pu_cai cat (vevva_y verukin-ip pu_cai yen-r-alum : Tol. Po. 623);
wild cat (Ta.lex.) pu_ccai, pu_ai, pu_n-ai cat (Ta.); pu_cca id.
(Ma.); pi.c id. (Ko.); pu.e id. (Kod..); pu_ce, pucce id. (Tu.);
pu_sal(i)(pl. pu_sasku), pu_sal, pusal id. (Go.); pu_se id. (Kuwi)
(DEDR 4355). boak a huge big headed tiger or tomcat; broad full
faced; boak asiane nelok kana he looks like a huge big headed
tomcat; boak moca big or wide mouthed (Santali.lex.)
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/Indian%20Lexicon/tiger.htm