Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 68626
Date: 2012-02-28

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
> Given that dogs were domesticated in East Asia, the suggestion the
> Sinitic word for 'dog' is an IE loanword (rather than the other way
> around) is plainly RIDICULOUS.

If domestication was as long ago as 33,000 years BP, the word could have passed either way if it is a loan. More significant is that the word is not just Sinitic, but general Sino-Tibetan (no grouping implied), apparently with Tibetan and Karen cognates.

Richard.