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

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