who named a dog a dog? or a cat a cat? How do we not know its not the other way round?

Answer 1

Your question really deals with the development of language. Etymology is the study of the origins of words. It's been suggested that, at one point, there was a common spoken language. If a common language did exist, it's origins lay in East Africa, over 150,000 years ago. Since recorded history only deals with the last five thousand years, our attempts to find the origins of words is difficult, at best.

In your particular case, Cats were first domesticated some 8,000 years ago in Egypt, most likely from the African Wild Cat. Since that's 3000 years before recorded history, we have a significant challenge in learning the origin of the word Cat. Dogs were probably domesticated long before Cats, as well.

The below link may be of some help however, in dealing with modern languages.

Answer 2

what other way round? in any way, a dog would still remain a dog or a cat a cat.

Answer 3

What do you mean "the other way round"? Are you trying to imply that there is some absolute name out there for everything?

It does not matter what arbitrary words we used to call something, it does not really change what the object is?

"Would a rose by any other name smell as sweat?"
[(--"Not if you called them stench blossoms")]

Answer 4

its like the names are carried in different forms.the first person to name a thing and make it popular that way so that evry1 calls it the same.if u named something b4 some1 does and make it very popular with that name then that is its name.so i dont think there can be any other explanation.so stop thinking things like that.

Answer 5

i think adam (the 1st human created by god) did it