Re: 'Dog' revisited

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Appleyard"
<a.appleyard@...> wrote:

> --- "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > But what's to become of Ruhlen's other "dog" words if you orphan
> > them? Have you even considered that? Tsk, tsk. ;-)
>
> If the same word for "dog" occurs in different families, e.g.
> PIE "kuwon" / Ancient Chinese "kjwan" :: I read that recent genetic
> research showed that all modern domestic dogs are descended from
> three original wild wolves. If so, if the domestic dog arose in one
> place and spread, perhaps the word spread along with the animal.

What

> do archaeologists say about the origin of the domestic dog?

You might have read it in Cybalist; I've said so. And dogs come from
SE Asia. As they say: "borrowed words for borrowed things".

Torsten