Re: 'Dog' revisited

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > 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

If PIE dogs go 'kwon, knwon', wouldn't English dogs have to
go 'hound, hound', while Finnish wolves would have to go 'susi, susi'?

Peter P