Re: Panjabi and Hungarian cognates for dog????

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Since Bulgarian kuc^e 'dog' also looks
> > similar, we may be dealing with a wanderwort. Iranian could

easily

> be
> > the donor language from which the word spread independently into
> Indic,
> > Ugric and Bulgarian, but as far as I know Proto-Iranian *kuti-

has

> no IE
> > etymology and may itself have come from some enigmatic substrate
> > language of Central Asia. The whole thing looks interesting but
> some
> > checking is in order. If there is a connection, somebody has
> certainly
> > studied it.
> >
>
> Genetically, all dogs can be traced to SE Asia. That's probably a
> better place to look for that enigmatic language.
>

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

*k-n, *k-l-, *k-n- all over the place. I left out the *k-t- ones for
no particular good reason. It seems reasonable to assume that all
these "dog" words are derived from the orignal word for the original
article.


Torsten