Re: micifuz, mico

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 68019
Date: 2011-09-06



From: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 6:07 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: micifuz, mico

 
Thor Stone: Can you translate that into a language I know? It definitely looks interesting. Any etymology beyond Scandinavian to Germanic? Is it definitively onomatopoeic? Does it go bak to some other language's onomatopoeia?
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Dansk Etymologisk Ordbog

'I. mis, en, kælenavn til en 'kat';
no. mis, miss, sv. miss(e), ty. Mies(s);
substantivering af II. mis.
- Jf. kissemis, misse.
â€" Sml. II. kis.
II. mis interj. lokkeord til en 'kat';
no., sv. miss;
dannet til mi, som gengivelse af kattens lyd;
se u. III. kis.
- Jf. I. mis.'

http://da.wiktionary.org/wiki/missekat

Torsten