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

and the Gaelic form is from English puss, given that
Gaelic is Q-Celtic

--- alexandru_mg3 <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 (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
>
>
>
>

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