Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <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.
>
> The word _dog_ did not originate in the domesticators' language.
>

What has English dog to do with the Sinitic word for 'dog'? NOTHING

> Does the Spanish word _perro_ originate in the domesticators' language? (It's been borrowed into Arawak and Carib, at the least.)
>

Do you know where the Spanish word comes from? I think possible a relationship with the Caucasian word for 'dog'.