Re: eH- themes, 5th Declination Latin, IE cognates?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> Burrow very plausibly separated <cane:s> from the kennel and derived it from a root *kan- 'small' attested in Indo-Iranian, e.g. Sanskrit <kanis.t.ha-> 'smaller', <kanya:-> 'girl' (from 'little girl').
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Unfortunately, this is an IE root *ken- whose meaning is 'young, new' (e.g. Latin rece:ns), not 'small'.

But IMHO your semantical proposal (that is, deriving 'dog' from 'small animal') is good, in despite there's no IE etymology for this word.