[Lexicog] mis = cat

[Bill Poser]

Once you get into North America north of the Southwest, you get
words for "cat" that seem to be based on "puss(y)", with /m/ instead of
/b/ or /p/ in some languages. Up in the Northwest, where labials are
scarce, some languages have forms like /du:s/.

Bill


 
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