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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: Word Count in Proto-Afroasiatic, was Sanskrit: etc.
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In article <58devf$anl@halley.pi.net>,
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@pi.net> wrote:

>And it's never too early for wild sheep, goats and cattle.  Why change
>the name of the animal just because you're breeding it instead of
>hunting it?

>The only case I'm aware of where the name was almost universally changed
>was wolf > dog, where the animal went from "enemy" to "man's best
>friend".  A name change was in order.  Nothing of the sort applies to
>cattle, sheep and goats.

	Actually, the Nostraticists propose that Indo-European *kwon 
"dog" and Uralic *kuyna "wolf" are cognates; suggesting "wolf" > 
"domesticated wolf" > "dog".

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