Re: [tied] right roots

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 24162
Date: 2003-07-04

I think it could be a Persian loan <sag> 'dog', extended in suffix -
ar.
The <g>, like in corgi.

Konushevci
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hmm.. world is strange enough. Rom. "ogar" = hunting dog is seen as a
> loan from Hungarian "agár" (meaning=?)
> Even admiting loosing of "s" from an older "*sogar" the k^Won
does not
> look as being the root for it.Where from should come the "g"
there?
> As for Latin "canis", you have seen the possible Thracian "kan-"
> discussed in Pokorny.
>
> Alex