Re: The chant of the dog's gravestone

D Tse sikayal:

> This thread comes from... January 2001. I doubt anyone will still be
> interested but I found the English version that a friend of mine finally
> found.
>
> It goes thusly:
>
> "A doggy stole a sausage
[snip]
>
> >I belive that the song,
> >which can be named "The chant of the dog's gravestone",
> >is at least of Proto-Indo-European origin,
> >if not even of Nostratic origin;
I wonder where you get this idea.  Having the same thing attested in
widely divergent IE langs doesn't necessarily mean that it's of PIE
origin, although I find that theory very seductive.  What are you basing
the assertion that it's from the PIE level from?

BTW, another listmember said that because the PIE word for 'sausage' isn't
reconstructible, the poem could not possibly be of that age.  That's not
necessarily true, as borrowings and neologisms could have replaced older
words while the narrative structure remained the same.  In that case,
though, we would expect to find words other than 'sausage' attested in
some versions of the song.

> >
> >        Pavel
>
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