[tied] Re: 'Dog' revisited

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- 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.

>

I think you mean 'Whoon, whoon'? In fact, that would be a good name
for an asthmatic dog.

Torsten