Re: why god spells backward of dog?


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Neil Jones wrote:
Colin Fine wrote:

Seriously though what is the Etymology of "Dog" I can't think of any
cognates.

Unknown AFAIK. It's not known before the C11 and only in English

Not true. Mbabaram has it too.

(though subsequently borrowed into some other languages) and seems to
have meant a particular breed or type of hunting dog.

"Dog" is from proto-Paman *gudaga. Cognates include utaGa in Uradhi, u?u
in Luthigh, uda in Ogh-Anggula, tey in Mbara, twa in Yinwum, ?wa in
Awngthim, two in Mbywom, to in Kuku-Thatpan, gur@k in Gugadj, kur@k in
Gog-Nar, ku in Wik-Munkan, kuta in Kuuk Thaayorre, ku?aaka in Kuuku-Ya?u,
gudaa in Guugu Yimidhirr, and gudaga in Yidiny, to quote just a few.
Dyirbal, just to the south, has guda, but Dyirbal isn't a Paman language,
so this may be a loan-word.

These are Australian languages. "Dog" in English far predates European
contact with Australian aborigines.

You seem to have missed the point. John just demonstrated that there
was contact long before the alleged first arrival in 1788.

Could it have been the famous Zheng He with his team of
synchronized dogs? You know the general who circumnavigated
Greenland in 1420s, discovered Antartica, the North Pole,
build stone structures near Boston, and all this in a couple
of short years.
Why didn't he land in Europe to say at least "Hello!"?

From a radio interview with the author of *1421*, I got the impression
that the Chinese expedition left material remains throughout the
central part of the US as well as a linguistic impress on some of the
local languages.

It's really appalling that that book is still being sold and seems to
have done rather well.

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