even MORE non-Siouan digressions about cats

Fri Aug 15 18:45:35 UTC 2003

At 14:46 14.08.03 -0700, David Costa wrote:
>Maliseet-Passamaquoddy:
>
>psuwis 'cat'
>p at su 'bobcat'
>pihtal 'lion'

Szabó (p. 177) gives piihtal, pl. piihtal at wok, which seems to contain the
same initial as piihtaakw at et II, piihtakwso AI (p.176f) "it / s/he is
long", so I guess this is the usual descriptive term for *mountain* lion.

>apiq at sik@n 'lynx' (I don't know the etymology of this one)

Szabó (p. 37), alas, doesn't have this lemma, but the initial seems the
same as in apikwseehs, pl. apikwseehsowok "rat"  any ideas about this one
maybe?

All the best,

Heike