even MORE non-Siouan digressions about cats

[Heike Bödeker]

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