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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
> 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.
The significant SE Asian words for dog I am aware of are:
PAN *asu2 (Blust's ACD)
Tai-Kadai *kh-ma: (tone A)
Proto-Austroasiatic: *cO: (or similar - some languages seem to show a presyllable in *k-)
Miao-Yao: *klu2 (tone B). Also seen in Mon, an Austroa-Asiatic language, and suggested as the origin of Chinese _gou_ 'dog'.
I suppose you'll argue that all but PAN are derivatives of some common word starting with a velar.