From where do we get the word dog?

gdec1

The English word dog derives from the Old English docga, a "powerful breed of canine". The French dogue and Spanish dogo as in dogo Argentino are borrowings from English. http://www.answers.com/dog&r=67 Oct 13 06, 11:53 PM

Gnomon

The word dog spontaneously appeared in Old English with no antecedents, and nobody knows where it came from. That's according to Stephen Fry on QI last night. Oct 14 06, 3:54 AM

elburcher

[late OE. docga (once in a gloss); previous history and origin unknown. (The generic name in OE., as in the Teutonic langs. generally, was hund: see HOUND.) So far as the evidence goes, the word appears first in English, as the name of a powerful breed or race of dogs, with which the name was introduced into the continental languages, usually, in early instances, with the attribute ‘English’. Thus mod.Du. dog, late 16th c. dogge (‘een dogghe, vn gros matin d'Engleterre, canis anglicus’, Plantijn Thesaur. 1573), Ger. dogge, in 16-17th c. dock, docke, dogg (‘englische Dock’, Onomast. 1582, ‘eine englische Docke’, 1653), LG. dogge, Da. dogge, Sw. dogg; F. dogue (‘le genereux dogue anglais’, Du Bellay 15..), It., Sp., Pg. dogo, Pg. also dogue; in all the languages applied to some variety or race of dog.] (Ref: Oxford English Dictionary) Oct 14 06, 9:42 AM

romeomikegolf

The cigar goes to Gnomon. According to a word origins site, it cannot really be traced. http://www.etymonline.com Oct 15 06, 1:56 AM

Baloo55th

You'er giving him a whole ciget? Not just a dog-end? Oct 15 06, 5:28 AM

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