txakur/dzhagaru/cachorro....

[Kastytis Beitas]

At 00:12 30.12.2000 -0500, Steve Long wrote:

>In a message dated 12/28/2000 11:18:17 PM, acnasvers at hotmail.com writes:

><< <Zagr-> probably results from *diagr- (cf. Gk. <agra> 'hunting', <agreus>
>'hunter', <agremios> 'taken in hunting', etc.). The meaning 'Jagdhund' as
>opposed to simply 'Hund' agrees with this analysis. >>

>If the word can be read as coming from Gk <agra>, then it can just as easily
>be seen as coming from the more basic form, Gk <agros>, field, farm, tilled
>land, pasture, country (vs. city). (Cf., <agraulos>, of field dweller,
>shepherds, oxen; <agreios>, of the field or country-side).

>This would suggest that the word could refer as much to a sheep or herding
>dog or some other kind of dog that lives or works on a farm, as opposed to
>perhaps a hunting or a fighting dog.

As I remember there is an old Russian verb polevat' that means 'to hunt in
fields' (from Russian word pole 'field')...

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