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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> They are mainly onomatopoeic. Not sure as PIE roots. And if there
was a PIE root for "cat", it would refer to the wild cat, not the
domestic one, that came to Europe through North Africa (Latin
cattus<North African).
Onomatopoeic yes, but old too...
Why you make reference only to Latin here, talking about PIE?
Gaelic : pishyakan (Romanian pisica, Slavic etc...) is not from
Nord Africa...
Romanian : m^at,a is not from Nord Africa...
etc...
seems that in PIE languages
*mV-
*pV(s)-
*cVt-
we have three origins
Marius