Re: Sumerian White Dogs: Ku Assa x Kuvasz

>Is this theory plausible or just phantasy?
>It is an attempt to link Hungarian Kuvasz's name, a big
>white shepherd dog, to Sumerian roots. (...)
>
>an ancient dog, the Ku Assa, which has been described as a huge
>white or yellow white pastoral guard dog belonging to the people
>the of the Sumerian culture. [SNIP]
>in France, the Pyrenean Mountain Dog; in Italy, the
>Maremmano-Abruzzese; in Turkey,the Akbash; in Poland, the
>Owczarek Podhalanski; and in Hungary, the Kuvasz. These breeds
>are very similar in type and tasks.

They are indeed similar, as this is well illustrated by Google
images (for every of the aforementioned breeds; to which I'd
add a further Hungarian large white shepherd dog, <komondor>,
and a third one, which is smaller, <puli kutya>; and variants
of the Romanian shepherd dog, <ciobãnescul românesc>).

As for Hung. <kuvasz> ['kuvOs] < Sumer. <ku assa,> I'd be
cautious (skeptical). (There are numerous "historians" and
"linguists" in Hungary & diaspora convinced that Sumerian =
Hungarian; and who've produced "Sumerian-Magyar grammar
books" and "dictionaries," and who pretend that virtually
all Sumerian toponyms, anthroponyms etc. can today be understood
by anyone who's in command of *modern* Hungarian. (:-))

George