txakur/dzhagaru/cachorro...

[Mate Kapović]

Here are all the examples again. Sorry if you could not have read them all the
first time. I hope it's ok now.

Cro. - ogar/zagar/bigar.
Magyar - aga:r
Romanian - ogar
OCS/Old Russian - ogar7 (7-jor)
Czech - ohaR (R- r with a diacritic over it - ř)
Polish - oharz.
Bolg. - zagar
Alb. - zaga:r/za:r
Middle Greek - zagaron
Modern Greek - zagari/zagaros
Turkish - zagar
Avarian - eger
Ossetic - yegar
Logudor - dzhagaru (dzh - eng. j)
Corsica - yakaru/dzhakaru
Bask - txakur
Port./Spanish - cachorro
Georgian - dzagli
all-European words - jackal (Eng.), cakal (Turkish) (c with a hook under - eng.
ch) etc.
Sanskrit - Srgala (S- eng. sh, cerebral)

Rick Mc Callister wrote:

<<Russian kotot'sja, Polish kocic'sie "bear cub">>

That would be all-Slavic *kotiti seN. It could be from the same Ie. root as
Latin catulus, maybe not. It's compared to Slavic *kot7(ka) "cat" (7 - jor) but
these are almost certainly borrowings (originally African - Egyptian(?) word,
cf. Latin cattus) and it's hard to believe that *kotiti seN ("to bear cub (for
some animals)") a would have come from *kot7, because cats were not so
(economically) important. Some contamination of the roots has almost certainly
been present.

Lat. catulus could exclude Spanish cachorro (much harder for Bask) from these
comparisons.

All these words seem to come from one (pre-Ie substrat word?). All the forms
are of a *JaKaR- kind or similar- J- affricate or fricative (j, ch, sh, z, y
etc.); K- k or g; R- r or l...

<<Alarodic?>>

Sorry, don't know what that is. That's what my dictionary source says.

Mate Kapovic