>Iranian could easily be the donor language from which
>the word spread independently into Indic, Ugric and Bulgarian
On top of that, Hungarians assimilated a considerable part
of Ossetian population at the beginning of their realm in today's
Hung. territory - esp. in the Tisza river plains; there, in a
certain area, numerous place names begin with <Jasz-> "As,
Ossyets"; in the same area, and adjacent ones incl. Western
Transylvania, Banat and Serbia, were concentrated the...
Turkic tribes of the Hungarian federation, the ones supposed
to have made the vanguard of the steppe warriors; in the
same territory was then concentrated the last Turkic wave
to be assimilated, the Cumans; in S-E Hungary, North of
Serbia, many toponyms containing <Kun>.
So, pretty many occasions for the "canine" word to be passed
on and preserved via the Turkic (Onogur-Bulgar, Kabar, Kuman)
path as well, in the case that it hadn't entered yet the Magyar
(Ugrian) vocabulary, say, by the 8-9th c.
>Piotr
George
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