Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> The word _dog_ did not originate in the domesticators' language.
>
> > What has English dog to do with the Sinitic word for 'dog'? NOTHING
>
> Simply that the current Chinese word may have replaced another one.

Words do get replaced, and dogs distinct from wolves have been around
for a long time.

>

But we don't have any evidence of that, and I must insist on that dogs
were first domesticated in SE Asia, not in the Pontic Steppes, for
example.