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From: ptholfsen@netos.com (Paul Tholfsen)
Subject: Re: PERRO - etymology?
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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 96 14:47:51 GMT
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>>: Many other canine words are of unknown/obscure/recent origin: English
>>: "dog" (vs. "hound"), Catalan "gos" (vs. "ca"), Irish "matad,
>>: madra(dh)" (vs. "cu"), Russian "sobaka" (vs. "pes").
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I have read that "dog" comes from the name of a breed of dog.
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>Is "sobaka" related to Sanskrit "svan" which is the feminine of 
>suon, and this is normally linked to "hound" and "canine"
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I was told by a former linguistics prof that the Russian "sobaka" is a 
borrowing from Turkish (kopek - pronounced with a German umlauted o sound).

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