Thanks re: word for "dog" etc.

[Robert Blust]

Dick,

Sorry, I've been a bit late to respond.  What you overlooked is that I
published the evidence for *kuyuk `sound used to call puppies' in 1980
(Oceanic Linguistics 19:100, item 244).  Since *asu clearly meant `dog' in
PMP, *kuyuk presumably meant something else.  The evidence for the gloss I
have given comes from an exact agreement in the meaning of the form
/kuyuk/ in Dairi-Pakpak Batak and Sasak.

I hope this helps.

Best,

Bob

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Richard McGinn wrote:

> Dear AN-Listers,
>
> 	Thanks to all who responded so quickly to my quest for languages with
> words for "dog", "rich" and "wild pig" that looked more or less like the
> corresponding words in Rejang (Sumatra).  Respondants to date have been:
> Phil Quick, Steve Quackenbush, Allan Maxwell, Gillian Sankoff, Isidore
> Dyen, Sander Adelaar, Malcom Ross, Adrian Cline, Ben Zimmer, Ishizawa
> Takeshi, Jean-Paul Potetip, Joel Bradshaw and Michael Boutin.
>
> 	Here is a summary of the comparisons most likely to be significant (i.e.
> having a resemblance due to inheritance or borrowing--not chance)
>
> 	sugea'  "wealthy" -- Javanese sugih, Madurese sogi "wealthy"
>
> 	kuyu'  "dog"  -- Brunei Malay kuyuk "dog"
>
> 	jaoa'  "wild pig" -- (nothing yet; everyone seems stumped)
>
> Thanks much!
>
> 	Here I will mention why I am interested in these words, among a few others
> I am using as diagnostics.  It seems that the Rejangs are isolated
> linguistically; they are only very distantly related to geographically
> neighboring languages (Lampung, Kayu Agung, Malay, Batak).  We have good
> knowledge of Rejang's phonological history (Blust 1984 (BTLV), McGinn 1997
> (Diachronica); and we know that Rejang retains PMP infixes (-en- "passive",
> -em- "active").  What I seek is a subgrouping hypothesis.  Are there any
> languages lower than PMP that Rejang can possibly be subgrouped with?  At
> present I am entertaining the speculation that the Rejangs migrated to
> Sumatra from Borneo, based on some evidence I discovered while preparing my
> 8-ICAL paper for the Proceedings, now published as Paul J-k Li 1999.  In
> this light, the Brunei Malay word for "dog" (kuyuk) strikes me as
> especially interesting.
>
> 	Again, thanks to all for your help.
>
> Dick
>
>