Re: [tied] Re: Woof

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 44591
Date: 2006-05-15

I agree. My point is that preexisting words for "dog" may have referred to non-domesticated or pre-modern semi-domesticated breeds, much in the same way that in Central American Spanish cacao is domesticated superior grade cacao, while pataxte is an inferior semi-wild type. Both words, of course, come from Nahuatl.

tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>
> I have to admit that Pat may have a point on this. The New
>Guinean "singing dog", from the little I've read on it, seems to be a
>semi-domestic breed, and is possibly closely related to the ancestor
>of the dingo. It is possible that the modern "Asian" breeds may have
>been an innovation that caused people to abandon less tamer breeds,
>much as ferrets were abandoned for cats.

The proposal was that *khwV(n/r)- was the name of the ancestor of
modern dogs, which was domesticated in or near China, and all its
descendants. How does the above relate to that proposal?


Torsten





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