[tied] Re: Odin as a Trojan Prince

--- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christopher Gwinn <sonno3@...>
> To: <cybalist@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 12:03 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Odin as a Trojan Prince
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> >
> > > I've already references in books about dog breeds, that Celtic
> > terriers
> > > could have been a Egyptian origin, relating them to the
> > Egyptian "teckel", a
> > > small, short-legged dog, usually considered to be ancestor of

German

> > > dachshund, Welsh Pembroke Corgi, and even Maltese bichon.
> >
> > The origins of a domestic animal (which could have easily been

spread

> > far and wide via trade) has no real bearing on the ethnicity of

the

> > people.
> >
> > - Chris Gwinn
> >
>
> Surely I know this, I was just sugesting that maybe there's some

link

> between Egyptian and Irish dogs. I don't know its origin, perhaps

trade via

> phoenicians, or some kind of Afro-Asiatic substratum in Ireland.

That dog name
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/kur.html
is all over the place too. Where dogs can go, so can words. If there
was no migration, at least there was travel. Which means the origins
of a domestic animal *is* relevant to linguists.

Torsten