From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 27465
Date: 2003-11-21
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From: <george.st@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:17 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Panjabi and Hungarian cognates for dog?
> >Iranian could easily be the donor language from which
> >the word spread independently into Indic, Ugric and Bulgarian
>
> On top of that, Hungarians assimilated a considerable part
> of Ossetian population at the beginning of their realm in today's
> Hung. territory - esp. in the Tisza river plains ...
If Hung. kutya is of Iranian origin, its shape looks pretty archaic. It's
closer to Proto-Iranian *kuti- than to Proto-Ossetic ("Alanic")*kudz^i.
Piotr