Re: eH- themes, 5th Declination Latin, IE cognates?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:
> >
> > Burrow very plausibly separated <cane:s> from the kennel and derived
> it from a root *kan- 'small' attested in Indo-Iranian, e.g. Sanskrit
> <kanis.t.ha-> 'smaller', <kanya:-> 'girl' (from 'little girl').
> >
> Unfortunately, this is an IE root *ken- whose meaning is 'young, new'
> (e.g. Latin rece:ns), not 'small'.

I recently argued in favor of *kenh1-, which I believe covers practically everything Burrow placed under *kan-, and supersedes my old post cited above.

> But IMHO your semantical proposal (that is, deriving 'dog' from 'small
> animal') is good, in despite there's no IE etymology for this word.

That is not "my" proposal, and it has an obvious parallel in Umbrian <katel> 'dog'; Latin <catulus> 'whelp' is less specific.

DGK