LL-L 'Etymology' 2006.07.21 (04) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 21 July 2006 * Volume 04
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From: 'Global Moose Translations' <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L 'History' 2006.07.21 (03) [E]

Ben wrote:
>Gabriele and all, I have never heard Dogge among my German friends. Is this
>a Lowland substraight or something? What's the etymology of the English
word
>dog?

Ben, in German, the word "Dogge" (which is obviously closely related to the
word "dog") is not a general word for "dog"; it is reserved for a handful of
breeds (compare to the Spanish "Dogo Argentino", "Dogo Canario" etc. - I
believe those are all fighting dogs). Mainly, it's Great Danes and bulldogs
("Bulldogge") who bear this name; a "Dogge" is always short-haired and
heavyset.

Gabriele Kahn

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

This is what the _Oxford English Dictionary_ says about "dog":

<quote>
[late OE. _docga_ (once in a gloss); previous history and origin unknown. (The
generic name in OE., as in the Teutonic langs. generally, was _hund_: see HOUND.)
So far as the evidence goes, the word appears first in English, as the name of a
powerful breed or race of dogs, with which the name was introduced into the
continental languages, usually, in early instances, with the attribute ‘English’.
Thus mod.Du. _dog_, late 16th c. _dogge_ (‘een dogghe, vn gros matin
d'Engleterre, canis anglicus’, _Plantijn Thesaur._ 1573), Ger. _dogge_, in
16-17th c. _dock_, docke, dogg (‘englische Dock’, Onomast. 1582, ‘eine englische
Docke’, 1653), LG. _dogge_, Da. _dogge_, Sw. _dogg_; F. _dogue_ (‘le genereux
dogue anglais’, Du Bellay 15..), It., Sp., Pg. _dogo_, Pg. also _dogue_; in all
the languages applied to some variety or race of dog.] 
</quote>

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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