From: Torsten
Message: 68038
Date: 2011-09-12
>Time for Rick's Danish lesson ;-)
> >>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
> >GarcÃa 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. ÐÑÑëнок âpuppyâ
> Bulgarian кÑÑе "dog"
> Macedonian кÑÑе, кÑÑка
> Serbo-Croatian kuÄka, kuÄe
> Slovene kuža
>
> Hungarian kutya âdogâ
>
> Iranian kuti
> Ossetian kuz
>
> Uzbek kuÄu (Kirgiz, Kazakh similar); Turkic küçük [küÄük] "little,
> small"; "cub, puppy"; cf. Hungarian kicsi ['kiÄi] "little, small".
> Mongol giÄin
>
> Romanian:
> (1) (diminutival) cÄÅ£el [k&-'tsel] "small dog" (< catellus <
> catullus?);
> (2) (diminutival, interjection) cuţu ['ku-tsu]
>
> Sicilian guzzu (sp?)
> Friulian kuzzu (sp?)
> Ital. cucciolo