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From: hsbrand@cs.vu.nl (HS Brandsma)
Subject: Re: PERRO - etymology?
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Jon Robert Crofoot (Bob.Crofoot@postoffice.worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: hrubin@b.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote:

: >
: >I have read that "dog" comes from the name of a breed of dog.
: >

:     "Dogge" is the German word for a "breed of large dog 
: (incl. mastiff, St. Bernard, Newfoundland, Great Dane), 
: according to Cassell's New German Dictionary.

Also "do^ge" in Frisian and "dog" [doch] in Dutch mean roughly
the same thing.

Henno Brandsma

