Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

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

>
> > Matisoff puts forward two suggestions in his Handbook of
> > Tibeto-Burman. One is that the -n is a collective suffix, and the

other

> > that Chinese derives from a different PTB word, albeit possibly

related,

> > *kywal 'wild dog, dhole'.
>
> I see both suggestions as doubious. I must insist that the
> archaeological data makes East Asia as one of the places were dogs

were

> first domesticated, so the logical conclusion is the word originated
> there.
>

What I'm saying is that IMHO the Sinitic word has nothing to do with
Tibeto-Burman. I don't understand why you can't accept this.