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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: "Chier" and "shit"
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In article <3iuf62$4is$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>,
   Jacques Thury <75107.2170@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>"Chier" comes from Latin "cacare" that also gave, e.g., "cagar" 
>in Spanish, and, of course, Fr. "caca"="poo-poo". It was widely 
>modified by the palatalization process of French, just the same 
>as Lat. Capra (goat) > chevre, Vacca > vache, and Castellum > 
>chateau.
>
>The phonetic similarity with "shit" - a Saxon word - is just a 
>coincidence, it seems to me.
>
>Jacques.

:-)

This is amusing.  "cacare" and others have undergone such a great
shift in pronunciation in the languages of the same group.
An yet, some them 'on loan' to other groups are still pronounced
almost as they were in the Roman times.

eg Czech
"kakat" - to poo (child expr. 'almost polite')
"kaka'" - he/she poos, etc....

Paul JK
