Re: The cat domestication happened more than 100,000 years ago

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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> tgpedersen schrieb:
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> > > 2. Romanian cotoi 'tomcat' is considered 'from Slavic + oi'
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> > What kind of suffix is Rom. -oi?
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> actually with an "-oi" is emphasised the masculitnity, the bigness,
> some characteristica for a certain thing becomes more bolded trough
> this suffix.
> For instance, "baba"= a old oman, "bãboi"= kind of very masculine
> old woman, one who can easely have the appearance of a man.
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> so, short say it masculinise it, it make it stronger as it is. Funny
> enough, there is nothing to masculinise as such since there is not
> known in Rumanian any "cot". "cotoi" is an another name for tomcat,
> the another one being "motan".

Is -oi related to Fr. -on, It. -one etc?


And "mâtsã" is the "cat", having the

> counterpart in Albanian and maybe in Germanic "mieze (katze)"

Da. missekat.


Torsten