From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 68718
Date: 2012-03-02
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"The word _dog_ did not originate in the domesticators' language. Does the Spanish word _perro_ originate in the domesticators' language? (It's been borrowed into Arawak and Carib, at the least.)
> <richard.wordingham@> wrote:
> 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.