[tied] Re: Woof

From: tgpedersen
Message: 44580
Date: 2006-05-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>
> I have to admit that Pat may have a point on this. The New
>Guinean "singing dog", from the little I've read on it, seems to be a
>semi-domestic breed, and is possibly closely related to the ancestor
>of the dingo. It is possible that the modern "Asian" breeds may have
>been an innovation that caused people to abandon less tamer breeds,
>much as ferrets were abandoned for cats.

The proposal was that *khwV(n/r)- was the name of the ancestor of
modern dogs, which was domesticated in or near China, and all its
descendants. How does the above relate to that proposal?


Torsten