Re: IE and their dogs : long-haired sheepdogs

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Wordingham
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:18 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: IE and their dogs : long-haired sheepdogs
>
>
> --- In cybalist@..., "anthonyappleyard" <MCLSSAA2@...> wrote:
>
> > Mandarin Chinese [chu"an], Ancient Chinese [kjwan].
>
> But our expert on Chinese believes the Old Chinese word was 'kwir'

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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/16078 ).
>
> Richard.

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> I was going to raise the same point. Plus, if the molecular-clock

dating is roughly correct and wolves were domesticated some 15,000
years ago, that probably means that domesticated dogs (and names for
them) occurred practically _everywhere_ by the end of the
Pleistocene. And where's the proof that the people who lived in
palaeolithic China were the linguistic ancestors of the Chinese?

>
> Piotr

r/n-stem? Or rather, if there is a process in IE which can turn n >
r, where's the problem?

Something to feast your eyes on:

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/kur.html

Woof!

BTW how do dogs occur? Is this related to the fact that dogs (and
those who believe they own them) have feet (and boats)?

Torsten