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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:17 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Panjabi and Hungarian cognates for dog?
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> > >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 ...
>
> If Hung. kutya is of Iranian origin, its shape looks pretty

archaic. It's

> closer to Proto-Iranian *kuti- than to Proto-Ossetic ("Alanic")

*kudz^i.

>
> Piotr

The Finnish word 'koira' dog, is traced to Uralic *koj- with an
original meaning of male/man. Is this source ruled out in the
Hungarian word?

Koira is a fairly new word < koiras, male animal, such as cock, bull,
male dog. Kolli, tom-cat.

Peter P