Re: cahorro

>>If catulus were stressed on the 1st syullable, you'd get catlus >
>>cachu- > cachorro.
>
>But you've got also vetulu- > vetlu > veclu > viejo, so this won't
>work.
>
>Hovewer, Bouda ("Baskisch-Kaukasiche Etymologien"), quoted by García
>de Diego ("Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico"),
>derives cachorro from a Caucasian root *katS- 'young of dog and other
>animals', also the source of Spanish gazapo and dialectal Portuguese
>cachapo 'young rabbit'. In today's framework, this would correspond to
>PNEC *k'wymts's'(w)a:
><http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/c\
>auc/caucet&text_number=1135&root=config> 'puppy'.

Cf.:

Russ. Кутëнок “puppy”
Bulgarian куче "dog"
Macedonian куче, кучка
Serbo-Croatian kučka, kuče
Slovene kuža

Hungarian kutya “dog”

Iranian kuti
Ossetian kuz

Uzbek kuču (Kirgiz, Kazakh similar); Turkic küçük [küčük] "little, small"; "cub, puppy"; cf. Hungarian kicsi ['kiči] "little, small".
Mongol gičin

Romanian:
(1) (diminutival) căţel [k&-'tsel] "small dog" (< catellus < catullus?);
(2) (diminutival, interjection) cuţu ['ku-tsu]

Sicilian guzzu (sp?)
Friulian kuzzu (sp?)
Ital. cucciolo

George