Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

> The Chinese 'dog' word, however, has cognates throughout Sino-Tibetan,
> and so probably has nothing to do with the PIE word and any similarity
> between them is fortuitous. I don't exclude the possibility of an
> extremely old Wanderwort, but I prefer to suspend my judgement until
> such time as PST reconstructions based on solid comparative work
> become relatively stable and uncontroversial.

Apparently you haven't suspended your judgement on whether they are
related since you have already declared that 'any similarity between
them is fortuitous'.


Torsten