IE, Genetic Data, Languages of Anatolia

[Robert Orr]

A question:

>IE *{kuon} (likely *{kewon} before zero-grading started) = Modern Chinese
>{chu"an} (Wade-Giles spelling), Ancient Chinese *{kywan} (1 syllable) = "dog".
>But when and where was the dog domesticated? Did this word travel along with
>the animal from whoever first domesticated it, rather than being a sign of
>language cognateness?

Actually, there is evidnece to suggest that IE *kuon is probably from a
zero-grade of *pekuon (*pkuon) > *kuon, and related to *peku - "herd(?)".
While semantically-based criticisms of comparing *kuon ("dog" > "wolf".,
"wolf > "dog" is almost a commonplace sematic development, although the
extinction of the wolf over vast territories makes it a little less likely
nowadays) will not do, a comparison between IE *pekuon and Nostratic, etc.
forms would be a desideratum.

Any references?

Robert Orr

For IE *kuon < *pekuon, see

Hamp, Eric P. 1980. "IE *()kuon - dog". Indogermanische Forschungen 85.35-42.

Knobloch, Johann. 1971. "Die indogermanische Benennung des Hundes", 	Donum
Indogermanicum. ed. by Robert Schmitt-Brandt, 39-40. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.

Osthoff, Hermann. 1901. Etymologische Parerga, Erster Teil, Leipzig: S. Hirzel.