[tied] Re: 'Dog' revisited

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 27650
Date: 2003-11-26

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> You're probably right. So, the proper theory is then, that as the
> domesticated dog passed out of SE Asia from one linguistic
community
> to the next, the languages of those communities did not borrow
words
> similar to *kwon along with the dog, but decided independently to
use
> words similar to *kwon for that particular trade article,
presumably
> for onomatopoeic reasons, since dogs go "kwon, kwon" in erh, some
> language?

It's a shame English dogs go, 'Woof woof', not 'Whoof, whoof.'
Grrr. Would someone retrain Dennis the Menace's dog Gnasher, please.

Richard.