From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 49254
Date: 2007-07-01
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> On 2007-06-30 17:07, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Do you mean ChSl kotUka, Russ kotI?
>
> It's *kotU, actually. Slavic also has *kotiti (seN) 'bear
> various animals including cats but also e.g. sheep and goats, andin
> Modern Polish even aquarium fishes), hence *kotIna (f.) 'pregnant'.Cf.
> Lat. catulus 'whelp, piglet, puppy, etc.' Perhaps the *kat- rootIf the cats really have 100,000 years of domestication, any PIE-man
> originally referred to young pets.
>
> Piotr
>