Re: [cybalist] Re: Hamp and his dog

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 2397
Date: 2000-05-08

Defayes Michel:
>In the course of this discussion on kuo:n, no body has ever bothered >to
>ask: [...] The main characteristic of a
>dog is that it is noisy and most names, dialectal or other, refer to >this
>character. Thus the Greek name should belong to a base of >acoustic origin,
>in this case k-n, s-n (dog, noisy birds or other >animals):

Let's nip this one in the bud. The IE word *kwo:n is not one syllable. It's
two: *k- and *-wo:n. This is different from a hypothetical **kWo:n which
would be one syllable with initial labiovelar. Your theory ignores this
completely and is insufficient. It also ignores the known etymologies of the
other words you listed for something far more pseudolinguistic. Not every
word can be reduced to mimickry of sounds and I doubt that *kwo:n is one of
these.

- gLeN

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