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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@> wrote:
> >
> > The related words in the Romance languages; such as, Spanish and
> Portuguese gato, gata and Italian gatto, gatta, came from Medieval
> Latin gattus, gatta, variants of Late Latin cattus, catta. French
> chat, chatte came directly from Late Latin cattus, catta. Late Latin
> cattus and catta are possibly loan words from an African language:
> Nubian kadis, "cat".
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> Turkish kedi 'cat'; Alb macë 'cat', maç-ok 'male cat, tomcat' and

dac

> 'male cat; child born out of wedlock, bastard'. Much more related to
> Latin form is Alb kot-ele 'kitten, kitty, puss'.
>
> Konushevci

Seems that root *kat- has other derivatives, like Alb kotem 'to nap'
(<to rest like cat'), kot-illë '(animal) offspirng', singularia
tantum, synonymic with ALb pjellë '(human) offspring' and further
extended meaning kot 'useless, vain'.