Re: Res: [tied] Re: Portuguese GORDO < Latin gurdus < *gWer-?

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 59542
Date: 2008-07-11



----- Original Message ----
From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 11:52:15 AM
Subject: Res: [tied] Re: Portuguese GORDO < Latin gurdus < *gWer-?

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@.. .> wrote:
>
> Good! I don't know so many Lusitanian shifts.
>
> so, gWrdo- > Lus. *gurdos > Iberic Lat. gurdus
>
> Could Latin cuniculus "rabbit" represent a Lusitanian *kun- for "dog" ?

À propos the old Latin/IE *kan-/*kun- problem: I found this in Orël &
Stol'bova:
1425 *kan- "dog"
East Chadic *kanya- "dog": Dangla kanya, Jegu kany-.
Omotic *kan- "dog": Ometo kana, kanaa, Nao kano.
A morphonological variant of *kun- id., *kūHen- id.

1498 *kun- "dog"
Berber *kun- "dog": Guanche cuna.
Omotic *kunan- "dog": Kaficho kunano, Mocha kunano.
Partial reduplication.
Related to *kan-, *kūHen- id.

1511 *kūHen- "dog"
West Chadic *kuHen- "dog": Fyer kweeN.
Fyer -N goes back to *-n-H-. Mogogodo kwehen "dog".
Omotic *keHen- "dog": Dime keenu.
Related to *kan-, *kun- id.

Torsten

Confusing "rabbiit" and "dog" seems a bit far fetched, but I suppose stranger things have happened, e.g. "prairie dog", so perhaps it was originally a modified term. 
A more interesting word for rabbit is Spanish gazapo "bunny, trickster, con man, street kid, etc." There are other related Ibero-Romance forms as well
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