LL-L: "Multilingualism" LOWLANDS-L, 30.OCT.1999 (05) [E]

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From: John M. Tait [jmtait at altavista.net]
Subject: LL-L: "Celtic connections" LOWLANDS-L, 26.OCT.1999 (06) [E]

Ian wrote:

>There are, to follow on from what Ron said, some major splits within the IE
>languages. If we take English "hound", German "Hund" we find Irish "cu",
>Latin "canis", I believe a similar Greek word,

Kuwn (w = omega, long [o:])- origin of _cynic_, from _kunikos_, dog-like.

John M. Tait.

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