Re: [tied] Indo-European animals.

This messages about dog remind me to ask:

What's the explanation for anomalous cane:s "dog" for *k^won, because the
expected would be *quon-, con-?

cane:s < athematic *can < *k^won ? Some another IE dialect?

----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Indo-European animals.


> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:22:48 +0200, "Yves Deroubaix"
> <yves_deroubaix@...> wrote:
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> >I am still seeking for words in Indo-European languages based on the
following roots: *ekwo- (horse), *kwon- (dog), *owi- (sheep), *gwou- (cow)
and *su- (pig). Would someone please be so kind to fill the following leaks?
> >
> >Hittite:
> *ekwo-, (--)
> *kwon- ~ <{LU}ku(wa)n-> "dog-people"
> *owi- (--)
> *gwou- (--)
> *su- (--)
>
> >Tocharian B:
> *kwon- <ku> (Acc. <kweM>) "dog"
>
> >Old Irish:
> *su- (--)
>
> >Lithuanian:
> *su- (--) [There are Latvian & OPrussian reflexes]
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> >Old Church Slavonic:
> *kwon- (--)
> *gwou- <gove,z^dI> "of cattle" (from unattested *<gove,do> "head of
> cattle")
> *ekwo- (--)
>
> >Albanian:
> *ekwo- (--)
> *kwon- (--)
> *owi- (--)
> *gwou- [Maybe <ka> "cow", with unexpected k- for g-]
> *su- <thi> "pig"
>
> >Armenian:
> *ekwo- <e:s^> "donkey"
> *su- (--)
>
> >Gothic:
> *gwou- (--)
> *ekwo- ~ aihwatundi "bramble" (*horse-tooth)
> *su- <swein> (*su-i:n-) "pig"
>
> >Are there Old High German, Old English or Old Saxon words based on the
root *ekw-?
>
> OE <eoh> "horse", OS <ehu-skalk> "horse servant"
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