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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> 1) The example of canis could make this a-language a kentum PIE
language, k^won > kan-.
Not necessarily. The *kan behind <canis> might be the same as that
behind OHG <hano:> 'singer', ie 'rooster', in other words an animal
that warns you. Besides, there are so many similar 'dog' (*k-n/r- etc)
words all over the world, that I would hesitate to claim with
certainty that all words for 'dog' in IE are derived from one root.
>
> If we assume that this "Alphaic" language was IE, we can deduce
some rules:
> k^ > k
> w > zero or merged into o (wo>o>a)
> o>a
Those are all based on the above assumption that PIE *k^won- = a-
language *kan-.
> fricatives are maintained (cf. g^Hazd)
I could answer that question if I knew a PIE root for it.
May we include *gHaid- "goat" (a root alleged as Semitic loan) ?
Kuhn does. Also, there are the roots *aik-, *ag^i- too. It looks like
a root from the 'bird language'.
>
> 2) There is the alternative of canis < *ken- "young"
Torsten