[tied] Re: Panjabi and Hungarian cognates for dog????

From: tgpedersen
Message: 27469
Date: 2003-11-21

Since Bulgarian kuc^e 'dog' also looks
> similar, we may be dealing with a wanderwort. Iranian could easily
be
> the donor language from which the word spread independently into
Indic,
> Ugric and Bulgarian, but as far as I know Proto-Iranian *kuti- has
no IE
> etymology and may itself have come from some enigmatic substrate
> language of Central Asia. The whole thing looks interesting but
some
> checking is in order. If there is a connection, somebody has
certainly
> studied it.
>

Genetically, all dogs can be traced to SE Asian. That's probably a
better place to look for that enigmatic language.

Torsten