[tied] Re: The cat domestication happened more than 100,000 years

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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

offspring' (of

> various animals including cats but also e.g. sheep and goats, and

in

> Modern Polish even aquarium fishes), hence *kotIna (f.) 'pregnant'.

Cf.

> Lat. catulus 'whelp, piglet, puppy, etc.' Perhaps the *kat- root
> originally referred to young pets.
>
> Piotr
>

If the cats really have 100,000 years of domestication, any PIE-man
should know from the beginning the word/words for CAT.

So if the two roots has any link, better to interpret that any young
pet could be named "pussy"/"pisoiaS" than vice-versa

Marius