History's Oldest Dog Name

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Abuwtiyuw: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuwtiyuw
Humans & Dogs: www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/our-responsibility/animal-health-news/human-dog-relationship-historical-perspective
What Breed Was Abuwtiyuw?: nationalpurebreddogday.com/what-breed-was-abuwtiyuw-one-of-the-first-dogs-whose-name-we-know/
Duke Of York’s Dog Names: www.oddee.com/list-of-weird-dog-names-a-medieval-british-noble-deemed-acceptable-64796/
Dogs Of History: www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/dogs/the-10-most-famous-dogs-in-history-from-churchills-poodles-to-the-royal-dog-with-its-own-footman-213172
Ovid’s Dog Names: www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/12sg7up/ancient_roman_dog_names/
Egyptian Pets: sendat.academy/students/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/06/ancient-egyptian-pets_v2_64126.pdf
Tesem Dogs: www.dogbreedinfo.com/t/tesem.htm

[@NameExplain]

What's your favourite name for a dog?

[@davea6314]

If you ever get a disgusting pet dung beetle or grotesque pet leech be sure to name them Donald Trump. I'm an American who hates Donald Trump, the worst president in our country's history.

[@SkyTheHusky]

Sky and Star, my cute little doggos :)

[@diegoantoniorosariopalomin2206]

Layka, i named my dog after the animal cosmonaut. Also, my uncle names his dogs after Greco Roman figures

[@SkyTheHusky]

@@diegoantoniorosariopalomin2206 Wow. That is so cool

[@brianedwards7142]

My current dog (I've had 15 or 16 in my time) is called Ruby, named for Ruby Payne-Scott who practically invented radio astronomy but was sacked by the Australian (my) government when she married because she "was taking a living from a man" and she should get into the kitchen, presumably. She campaigned to have that rule changed and I feel she was subjected to a kind of damnatio memoriae because of it. I remember my sister in law having to quit her teller job because she married my brother in the late 70s. So archaic. I didn't know about her myself until I saw that my new dog had swirls of white dots round her ears and thought the stars were whispering to her so I googled famous female radio astronomers.

[@HUNdAntae]

So his name was the Kemet version of "Lord Pointyear McBarkenstein" 😂

[@alexanderkelsey202]

Yes the Egyptians named their cats! One of the more famous examples (though I’m not sure if it’s the oldest known named cat) is Nd̠m (Egyptological Nedjem, Old kingdom [naːcʼim]/something like ‘Naakyim’ where the ky is also an ejective), which means “Sweet” or “Sweetie”. The cat was presumably male because the female name would have a -t suffix

[@SkyTheHusky]

In short: it was Abuwtiyuw, the dog of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. The name Abuwtiyuw is believed to literally mean "bark" (abuw) "pointed ears" (tiyuw), so Abuwtiyuw is believed to mean "the barking one with pointed ears". He died around ~2820 BCE

[@gigaherz_]

too elaborate of a translation, IMO. this was almost definitely a name given by a young child, so it really makes more sense to think of the translation like "pointy-ears woof"

[@SkyTheHusky]

@@gigaherz_ Yeah, maybe

[@AutoReport1]

"Do we tell the Pharaoh they're ALL called 'pointy eared barker?" "Duat no, he'll want to know what you mean by 'ALL', and I'm NOT explaining that one. If he thinks it's the same dog and that's it's name, then it is the 'same' dog and that is it's name, ok?"

[@yourroyalchungusness]

Man, this remind me of that old sumerian " a dog walks into a bar" joke

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

As a greyhound mum of 30+ years, I would be _very_ surprised if a sighthound was a guard! A hunter, yes, but I've never met a sighthound who was a good guard dog (though my soulmate would watch out for me when strange men came to the door, especially if hubby wasn't around. She'd stand between us and stare at their groin - very deliberately and intently. You'll never see a guy back away more quickly than that 🤣) The majority of sighthounds would befriend any housebreakers if they brought some treats, especially if you find their "kryptonite". They're not particularly loud dogs, which is one of the reasons I love them so much. Of course, just to prove me a liar, my current boy is quite chatty and isn't food-oriented, unless you have _his_ kryptonite: a sausage. He'll let anyone do anything for a sausage. Hubby actually cooks about a kilo a week for him... 🤷🏻‍♀️. But he's loopy and basically the exception that proves the rule. But then Hubby used to buy extra cheese for our last girl and small apple pies for our last boy. All three came from the same kennel, weren't particularly into treats - and never from a stranger - except for these things, so we don't know what they were taught. All previous hounds would take anything from anyone! But the other two were lousy guard dogs like all previous ones, and rarely made any noise except for the greyhound eeuw & woofle - a sort of squeak and excuse for a bark respectively. It's not quite a bark. They _can_ bark, loudly too (it makes you jump a mile because it's so uncommon), they just don't very often waste their energy when they could be making themselves more comfortable. There is a breed called the pharaoh hound, which is very similar in shape to greyhounds but are smaller and definitely different. They're also sighthounds IIRC. Who knows, maybe this beloved pupper was one of them!

[@stapoldy_propaganda_account]

my dog's name is rey, after the star wars character! (my brother's friend got a dog named finn a while earlier, also named after the star wars character, and we wanted it to match.) but i think it also works because she's a ray/rey of sunshine :D

[@eriathdien]

What about Cerberus? I know it's a mythical dog but I've always found interesting that some say it comes from the PIE word for "Spotted".

[@aidenmartin6674]

I’ve read that and thought it was hilarious. Look! A giant 2 headed dog. What should we name him? Let’s call him Spot

[@jmi967]

Sad part is the dog was likely killed so he could continue to protect his owner in the afterlife.

[@Kak7836]

Is no one going to mention the Best Boy(x3) of the Underworld: Spot!

[@TheDeadmanTT]

My dog was named Max. Because he was MAX CUTE. 🐶

[@My-cat-is-staring-at-you]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[@MuriKakari]

Indiana Jones is a great reference to make, since that's a human named after a dog. Also, I did see the movie and thought it was pretty good.

[@Akrafena]

I think his owner was either Pepi I or Nemtyemsaf I as Pepi died 7 years beforehand and could have raised him. Nemtyemsaf was alive during huis death

[@nickbenton4881]

I could see “abu” as an onomatopoeia. A little like “boof” in modern English.

[@dunkleosteusterrelli]

boof is not an onomatopoeia in English, it infact means something completely different (usually weed)

[@prettypic444]

"there's one important question we need to answer" was he a good boy?

[@fredcoleman6827]

Apparently, according to something I saw on the Internet once, the name Cerberus means "Spot"

[@montecorbit8280]

At 4:59 "I'm sure they named cats to, but we're not here for that".... Speak for yourself!! I'm waiting on the oldest cat named video!!!!

[@LaineyBug2020]

I think Pretyman is the sweetest name for a good boy!

[@ClaridadCaliente]

I'm pretty sure Futurama had an episode about this

[@talanigreywolf7110]

I knew a girl that named her chow-chow "Fubar".

[@TheCucuyo9779]

He's described as a guard dog, so it's likely he saved his owner or someone in his owner's family from harm.

[@Autenaten_McCready]

The dogs owner could have been Achkanaten (sp?) (Tuts dad) because A. was a massive rebel at the time. Egyptians loved cats, so he of course loved his dogs! (lol) just a guess.

[@TariosGD]

No, Akhenaten ruled during the 18th dynasty, while Abuwtiyuw was alive over 900 years earlier, in the 6th dynasty.

[@Autenaten_McCready]

probably his owner was Aukanaten (sp?) (dad of Tut) because this Pharoh was against the norm in Ancient Egypt (lol)

[@sohopedeco]

My dog is named "Toddynho". He's brown, so I named him after a brand of chocolate milk.

[@star_duck]

Melhor do q dollyinho

[@elainebenes7971]

Don't worry you weren't the only one who overlooked the new Indiana Jones movie...

[@Liethen]

Indiana Jones and the lost tomb of Abuwtiyuw

[@MongoHongos]

Not sure how they got "Barky Pointy Ears" if his hieroglyphs were arm/leg/bird. I'd assume it was "Little Fast Guy that's good at hunting birds" or something.

[@raiisleep]

they work like if we used an apple for the letter a or an orange for o

[@kyleward3914]

Can we get the companion video about the oldest known cat name?

[@wmdkitty]

Nedjem, translates to "sweetie".

[@brianarbenz1329]

So TIYUW is what they’d call Spock. 9:04

[@blistlelo1700]

Maybe the most oldest prehistoric dog name is something that translates to "Wolfie", "Wolfy" and "Mr. Wolf".

[@JayTemple]

I figured it would be Fidus.

[@crazycatdragon]

Actually, ancient Egyptians didn’t name their cats as they were seen as to sacred and belonging to Basset. They just called them “mew”

[@dunkleosteusterrelli]

there are plenty of examples of cats with names in Ancient Egypt

[@crazycatdragon]

@@dunkleosteusterrelli cool to know!!!!!! Whenever I’ve seen ancient Egyptian documentaries they’ve always said that the cats never had names.

[@Illumisepoolist]

We had three dogs. Liberty, Buddy, and Jina.

[@user-wq7rr8nl9t]

So Lord Barkie was a good boy

[@nebulan]

The indy Jones movie was fun

[@sarahmacintosh6449]

Watching this while snuggled with my greyhound and whippet 😁

[@MichaelRosen-wz4ru]

abutiyuw is best boi

[@afwalker1921]

I would expect the oldest dog's name to be Khensh!

[@kyReeElainProhm]

Fluffy? Spot?

[@horsefeathers2391]

I don't like give pets common human names, it's kinda insulting. Here you have this wonderful being who's moniker may be tarnished by some person you have the displeasure of knowing who goes by the same utterance.

[@PHiLLy2c]

Fidough is also a pokemon dog 🐶

[@alexeialeksandr7606]

My dogs name is Dudley Dooright

[@afwalker1921]

You choose a strange spelling for Fideaux...

[@richardmiller9883]

As opposed to CTVT, the name of the oldest dog.

[@NBK1122]

Sit, Ubu, sit.

[@urugwey4598]

Alive soldier 14

[@fredcoleman6827]

Did we domesticate wolves or did they domesticate us?

[@marym7104]

Within 10 hours!

[@user-ze5er5nw8e]

Athletic brother 32

[@Tube.M98]

Short boy 74

[@holohacke4918]

woof

[@user-iy1zx8yw2k]

интересно но ничего не понятно

[@willdunn8846]

S T R O N G B O Y

[@annfedoseenko5775]

Gentle mother 22

[@inissabri7428]

do cats next pls ❤

[@swamianandtesla2347]

🐶🐕🐩🐕‍🦺😘

[@marym7104]

3,189th viewer of this video!

[@mariakasstan]

Did we domesticate them....or did they domesticate us?

[@robertmiller9735]

Yes.

[@horsefeathers2391]

Wheat, rice, maize, millet domesticated us. Humans were are the only animals that I'm aware of that were domesticated by plants. But dogs might make domestication worth all the trouble that domestication brings

[@IanZainea1990]

Explain my last name. I dare you. It's nearly impossible.

[@ElenaABULADZE]

Weak engineer