ASB puza

[ROOD DAVID S]

I am pretty sure that this word for 'cat', which recurs in many North
American languages with minor variations, is English 'puss' or 'pussy'.
Why the /s/ is voiced in ASB I don't know -- Linda?  Certainly
"pusila/pusida" is from that source.  So ASB is "cognate" in a strange
sort of way, in that both words derive from the same lending language.

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Michael Mccafferty wrote:

> I imagine Dave Costa might be jumping in here as soon as the West Coast
> wakes up. I always defer to him in these matter. However, "puza/buza"
> looks like it could be a borrowing of a reflex in some Algonquian language
> of Proto-Algonquian */peSiwa/  'lynx, wildcat' (S = sh)
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> Michael McCafferty
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> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Wablenica wrote:
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> > I wonder what can be the origin of ASB puza/buza "cat"
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> > http://fpcctalkindian.nativeweb.org/n_audio/n_alphabet/buza.wma
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> > Is 'pusida' in some D-dialects a cognate of buza or a borrowing of English "pussy" + dim.
> > -da(n) ?
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> > Thank you.
> > Constantine
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