[Lexicog] mis = 'cat'

[Fritz Goerling]

Rudy,

I wonder about that scholarship about "mozo." Have you ever seen a cat
behaving like a servant?

Fritz Goerling


There was a spate of publication about that word in Southwestern US
and Mexican Indian languages some 30 years ago, and the scholarship at
the time was that it was somehow derived (not clear how) from a version
of "mozo" 'servant'. There may be more recent research on the question.

Rudy Troike

 

 

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