HOUND
Hound is a dog. This word stays in a straight connection to "hunting" because a hound is a special kind of a dog used for this activity.
Hunter has many meanings in English language such as:
- One who hunts game for sport or for food (a huntsman or a huntswoman).
- A dog used in hunting.
- A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
- One who hunts or seeks after anything.
Mycenaean Greek: "kunaketa" meant "hunters" (from "kuon" = "dog"). Notice similiarity to Czech "kůň" (kuon) meaning "horse".
That is why there might be a connection between this indo-european word and a word for a "horse" in some languages. Horse would then be just "an animal used for hunting or war", sort of a large dog (that is how Native Americans named horses when they first encountered them).
The best proof of that theory is Alviri-Vidari language "اسبه (asbe)" and Avestan "spā" meaning "dog" that are very similar to Sanskrit "अश्व (aśva)" and Persian "اسب (asb)" meaning "horse". Slavic "koń" meaning "horse" is like Scanian "hońń" meaning "dog". In Frisian language "hynder" means a "horse".
SU-
---> Estonian: susi ("wolf")
---> Finnish: susi ("wolf")
---> Ingrian: susi ("wolf")
---> Karelian: šusi ("wolf")
---> Livonian: su'ž ("wolf")
---> Võro: susi ("wolf")
---> Votic: susi ("wolf")
Old Armenian: շուն (šun)
Armenian: շուն (šun)
Latvian: suns
Lithuanian: šuo (genitive šuns)
Old Prussian: sunnis
Polish: sunia ("small female dog")
Old Marathi: सुणें (suṇeṃ), सुणा (suṇā), सुणी (suṇī)
Konkani: सुणो (suṇô)
Old East Slavic: сꙋка (suka) ("female dog")
Belarusian: су́ка (súka) ("female dog")
Russian: су́ка (súka) ("female dog")
Rusyn: сука (suka) ("female dog")
Ukrainian: су́ка (súka) ("female dog")
Serbo-Croatian: сука suka ("female dog")
Czech: suka ("female dog")
Kashubian: sëka ("female dog")
Polabian: sauko ("female dog")
Polish: suka ("female dog")
Slovak: suka ("female dog")
Vilamovian: su̇ka ("female dog")
---> Hungarian: szuka ("female dog")
Luwian: suwani-, zúwa/in(i)- (suuaini)
Maharastri Prakrit: suvāṇa
SV-
Sanskrit: श्वन् (śván), श्वा (śvā́), शुनः (śúnaḥ)
Hindi: श्वान (śvān)
Khotanese: śve
SP-
Avestan: spā
Pashto: سپی (spay), سپۍ (spëy)
Old Median: σπάκα (spáka)
SKU-
Old Armenian: սկունդ (skund) ("dog, puppy")
Kashubian: szkapa ("horse")
KU-
Hittite: ku-wa-aš /kuwaš/, ku-wa-na-an /kuwanan/ (acc. sg.)
Tocharian A: ku (oblique koṃ)
Tocharian B: ku (oblique kweṃ)
Jatvingian (Sudovian): kuo
Ancient Greek: κύων (kúōn)
Greek: κύων (kýon)
Dalmatian: cun, cuon
Norman: qùyin
Primitive Irish: ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (cuna)
Old Irish: cú
Irish: cú
Manx: coo
Scottish Gaelic: cù
Gaulish: cuna
Belarusian: куні́ца (kuníca) ("marten")
Russian: куни́ца (kuníca) ("marten")
Ukrainian: куни́ця (kunýcja) ("marten")
Bulgarian: куни́ца (kuníca) ("marten")
Macedonian: ку́на (kúna) ("marten")
Serbo-Croatian: ку́на kúna ("marten")
Slovene: kúna ("marten")
Czech: kuna ("marten")
Kashubian: kùna ("marten")
Polish: kuna ("marten")
Slovak: kuna ("marten")
Lower Sorbian: kuna ("marten")
Upper Sorbian: kuna ("marten")
Lithuanian: kiáunė ("marten")
Latvian: caûna ("marten")
Old Prussian: caune (kaune) ("marten")
Polish: kundel ("mixed-breed dog")
Phrygian: κύνας (kunas) (accusative plural)
Ossetian Iron: куыдз (kuyʒ)
Ossetian Digor: куй (kuj)
Chorasmian: kut, kutta
Sogdian: ʾkwt-y, kwt-y, qwt-y /ᵊkʷətí/
Yagnobi: kut
Ishkashimi: kьd
Sanglechi: kud
Sarikoli: kыd (kyd)
Shughni-Roshani: kud
Yazgulyam: k°od
Baluchi: kučak
Northern Kurdish: kûçik
Zazaki: kutik
Hazaragi: kuṭá
Tajik: кучак (kučak)
Bengali: কুত্তা (kutta)
Sylheti: kutta
Maharastri Prakrit: kutta
Marathi: कुत्रा (kutrā), कुत्री (kutrī), कुत्रे (kutre)
Sauraseni Prakrit: kutta, kuttī
Gujarati: કૂતરો (kūtro), કૂતરી (kūtrī), કૂતરું (kūtrũ)
Hindi: कुत्ता (kuttā), कुत्ती (kuttī)
Punjabi: ਕੁੱਤਾ (kutā), ਕੁੱਤੀ (kutī)
---> Nepali: कुती (kutī) ("puppy")
HU-
---> Estonian: hunt
---> Finnish: hunttu
Old High German: hunt
Middle High German: hunt
Alemannic German: Hùnt
Plautdietsch: Hunt
Walser: hun, hund, hunn, hònn
Bavarian: hunt
Cimbrian: hunt
Old English: hund
Middle English: hund
Old Frisian: hund
Old Saxon: hund
Old Dutch: hund
Middle Low German: hund
Sauerländisch: Hund
Westmünsterländisch: Hund
Vilamovian: hund
Old Norse: hundr
Faroese: hundur
Icelandic: hundur
Norn: hund
Norwegian Bokmål: hund
Norwegian Nynorsk: hund
Old Swedish: hunder
Swedish: hund
Old Danish: hund
Danish: hund
Gutnish: hund
Saterland Frisian: Huund
Hunsrik: Hund
German: Hund
Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds)
Mooring: hün
West Frisian: hûn
Föhr-Amrum: hünj
Kölsch: Hunk, Hungk
Scots: hoond
Kashmiri: hūn
Westrobothnian: hunn
Frisian: hynder ("horse")
KA- KAN-
Lydian: kan-
Latin: canis (kanis)
Campidanese: cani
Sicilian: cani
Aromanian: cãni, cãne
Corsican: cane
Italian: cane
Logudorese: cane
Aragonese: can
Istriot: can
Asturian: can
Ligurian: can
Occitan: can
Old Portuguese: can
Galician: can
Romagnol: can
Spanish: can
Venetian: can
Ladin: cian
Lombard: cà
Catalan: ca
Portuguese: cão
Romanian: câine
Istro-Romanian: căre
Friulian: cjan, čhan
Romansch: chaun, tgaun, chan
SA-
Pali: sā
Old Persian: çaka
Middle Persian: klbʾ /sak, sag/
Persian: سگ (sag)
SO-
---> Thai: โสณ (sǒon)
Old Church Slavonic: сѫка (sǫka) ("female dog")
Kalasha: šọ̃́a
Pali: soṇa
KO-
Bactrian: κοδο (kodo)
Megleno-Romanian: cǫini
HO-
Middle English: hound, honde
English: hound
Hamburgisch: Hond
Middle Dutch: hont
Dutch: hond
Afrikaans: hond
Limburgish: hóndj
Swabian: Hond
Central Franconian: Hond, Hunk, Honk
Luxembourgish: Hond
Scanian: hońń
Westrobothnian: höund
KI-
Middle Breton: ci, qui
Breton: ki
Old Cornish: ci
Cornish: ki, kei
Middle Welsh: ci, ki
Welsh: ci
HI-
Helgoland: Hin
CHI-
Franco-Provençal: chin
Old French: chien
Middle French: chien
French: chien
CHE-
Tourangeau: chen
Walloon: tchén
Picard: tchien, kien, quien
SE-
Northern Kurdish: se
Central Kurdish: سەگ (seg)
SYP-
Talysh: сыпә sıpə
ASB-
Alviri-Vidari: اسبه (asbe)
Article created on the 8th of January 2019. The theory presented above is the Indo-European Connection's idea.