Re: Res: [tied] Re: The cat domestication happened more than 100,0

At 2:47:37 PM on Saturday, June 30, 2007, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes"
> <josimo70@...> wrote:

>> 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

This is obvious nonsense: <pishyakan> is impossible in
Gaelic orthography. There is a <piseag> 'kitten, young
cat', nom. pl. <piseigean>; according to MacBain, it's a
borrowing of English <pussy>.

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Brian