Re: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

On 2007-09-25 11:31, tgpedersen wrote:

>> The Chinese 'dog' word, however, has cognates throughout Sino-Tibetan,
>> and so PROBABLY has nothing to do with the PIE word and any similarity
>> between them is fortuitous. I don't exclude the possibility of an
>> extremely old Wanderwort, but I prefer to suspend my judgement until
>> such time as PST reconstructions based on solid comparative work
>> become relatively stable and uncontroversial.
>
> Apparently you haven't suspended your judgement on whether they are
> related since you have already declared that 'any similarity between
> them is fortuitous'.

Probably.

Piotr