Plosive-liquid clusters in euskara borrowed from IE?

[Rick Mc Callister]

sure, it makes sense --perhaps also as a root for poto
In modern Spanish <uf> & [occasionally] <uy> are the common interjections
for stench

>Rick Mc Callister (I think) wrote:

>>         <Puta> is definitely the most common and stable form
>>         but <puto> goes back a long ways.
>>         I don't have access to Corominas, so I can't check it
>>         but the common explanations of <puta> are that
>>         1) it's an abbreviation of <prostituta> or
>>         2) that it's related to <poto> "butt" "piece of ass"

>I think the most plausible explanation for -puta-, Fr. -putain- &c., is
>to trace them back to Latin -puteo, putere-, "stink."  I suspect this is
>one of those roots that comes originally from an interjection, and will
>tend to be re-introduced despite the phonetic vicissitudes of any more
>elaborate words compounded from it.  /pu/ is not unknown in modern
>English as a reaction to a bad smell.  };-)
>
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