[tied] Re: 'Dog' revisited

--- 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.