Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

From: Tavi
Message: 68694
Date: 2012-03-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
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> Once everyone is familiar with dogs, a word for 'dog' can spread without regard to their point of origin.
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But the word itself must have originated in the domesticators' language. My guess is the Sinitic and IE words originated in East Asia, but the TB and Caucasian ones originated elsewhere.

Interestingly, Altaic *pHjun[e] 'a small wild animal' appears to be related (with reduction of the initial cluster) to this as well as to another 'dog' Wanderwort found in Uralic *pene and Kartvelian (Megrel) pin-.