Note 263 — Chapter V · EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE.
Reading edition
See Pictet, ‘Origines Indo-Europ.’ part i. p. 382; Caldwell, ‘Gr. of Dravidian Langs.’ p. 465; Wedgwood, Dic. s.v. ‘puss,’ &c.; Mariner, ‘Tonga Is. (Vocab.)’; Gibbs, ‘Dic. of Chinook Jargon,’ Smithsonian Coll. No. 161; Pandosy, ‘Gr. and Dic. of Yakama,’ Smithson. Contr. vol. iii.; compare J. L. Wilson, ‘Mpongwe Gr.’ p. 57. The Hindu child’s call to the cat mun mun! may be from Hindust. mâno = cat. It. micio, Fr. mite, minon, Ger. mieze, &c. = ‘cat,’ and Sp. miz! Ger. minz! &c. = ‘puss!’ are from imitations of a mew.